Quotes about Wanting it

Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is. Votes: 3

To love a thing means wanting it to live. Votes: 3

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all. Votes: 3

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it. Votes: 3

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it. Votes: 3

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way. Votes: 3

I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more. Votes: 3

Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings. Votes: 3

A person didn't need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn't help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I'd take it Votes: 3

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it. Votes: 3

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you. Votes: 3

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy. Votes: 3

I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible. Votes: 3

The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder. Votes: 3

Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different. Votes: 3

Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?' Votes: 3

Music is all about wanting to be better at it. Votes: 2

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got. Votes: 2

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. Votes: 2

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be. Votes: 2

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Votes: 2

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. Votes: 2

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright. Votes: 2

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be. Votes: 2

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. Votes: 2

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer? Votes: 2

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. Votes: 2

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. Votes: 2

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Votes: 2

Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery. Votes: 2

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. Votes: 2

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever. Votes: 2

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution. Votes: 2

For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on. Votes: 2

She wanted to go inside. She wanted to go in, wanting it as we want to jump from balconies, as the glint of the rails tempts us when we hear the approaching train. Votes: 2

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one. Votes: 2

It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground. Votes: 1

Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance. Votes: 1

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. Votes: 1

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first. Votes: 1

It's a curious, wanting thing. Votes: 0

When you stop wanting something, you get it. Votes: 0

It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble. Votes: 0

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter. Votes: 0

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it. Votes: 0

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. Votes: 0

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. Votes: 0

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. Votes: 0

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't. Votes: 0

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. Votes: 0

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. Votes: 0

If you`re wanting to do policy, it should be bipartisan. Votes: 0

...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it. Votes: 0

Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it. Votes: 0

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest]. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more. Votes: 0

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged. Votes: 0

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not. Votes: 0

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having. Votes: 0

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. Votes: 0

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. Votes: 0

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. Votes: 0

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it. Votes: 0

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way. Votes: 0

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing. Votes: 0

It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it. Votes: 0

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. Votes: 0

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It's a male habit. Votes: 0

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO. Votes: 0

People fall in love without reason, without even wanting to. You can't predict it. That's love. Votes: 0

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. Votes: 0

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately. Votes: 0

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. Votes: 0

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. Votes: 0

Sunshine, it's the Celt wanting a little reassurance that I haven't eaten you or anything. (Vane) Votes: 0

Formula One is not just multinationals. It's also about national players wanting to get global coverage. Votes: 0

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable? Votes: 0

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health. Votes: 0

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. Votes: 0

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are? Votes: 0

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic. Votes: 0

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species. Votes: 0

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting. Votes: 0

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. Votes: 0

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in. Votes: 0

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living. Votes: 0

Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting. It's being tried, found difficult and rejected! Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves. Votes: 0

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster Votes: 0

Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!' Votes: 0

His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain. Votes: 0

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting. Votes: 0

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get, Votes: 0

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. Votes: 0

Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit. Votes: 0

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. Votes: 0

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. Votes: 0

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me. Votes: 0

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar. Votes: 0

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. Votes: 0

I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed. Votes: 0

It is important to make sure that both persons wanting to marry have enough finances and are ready to commit Votes: 0

I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. Votes: 0

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green. Votes: 0

Wanting to transform the World it is impossible without the blaze of love. Only love can truly transform the World. Votes: 0

Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you. Votes: 0

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is. Votes: 0

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin. Votes: 0

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons. Votes: 0

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity. Votes: 0

I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more. Votes: 0

It sure gives me faith and a wonderful feeling to know how many fans and friends are wanting me well again. Votes: 0

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki Votes: 0

Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting. Votes: 0

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it! Votes: 0

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. Votes: 0

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one. Votes: 0

I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes. Votes: 0

Good film, television, or music keeps you awake, anxious for the next movement or act, and wanting more when it is finished. Votes: 0

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it. Votes: 0

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. Votes: 0

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. Votes: 0

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity. Votes: 0

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. Votes: 0

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall. Votes: 0

It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?" Votes: 0

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. Votes: 0

I like a man who smells good. Puts on cologne; lotions his body. It keeps me wanting. I like feeling that way. Votes: 0

It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting. Votes: 0

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it. Votes: 0

The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what's there. . . . Votes: 0

I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen. Votes: 0

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism? Votes: 0

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. Votes: 0

In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel. Votes: 0

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it. Votes: 0

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh. Votes: 0

Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love. Votes: 0

I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood. Votes: 0

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman. Votes: 0

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer. Votes: 0

I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure. Votes: 0

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay. Votes: 0

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous. Votes: 0

How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue. Votes: 0

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying. Votes: 0

The first breath of autumn was in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late. Votes: 0

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience. Votes: 0

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing? Votes: 0

Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die. Votes: 0

Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in. Votes: 0

She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead. Votes: 0

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it. Votes: 0

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. Votes: 0

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it. Votes: 0

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. Votes: 0

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting. Votes: 0

Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale. Votes: 0

I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger. Votes: 0

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative. Votes: 0

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life. Votes: 0

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it. Votes: 0

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. Votes: 0

As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star. Votes: 0

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting. Votes: 0

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something. Votes: 0

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment. Votes: 0

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried. Votes: 0

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. Votes: 0

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. Votes: 0

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled. Votes: 0

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. Votes: 0

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me. Votes: 0

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina. Votes: 0

(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me. Votes: 0

Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst. Votes: 0

It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more. Votes: 0

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up. Votes: 0

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. Votes: 0

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor. Votes: 0

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing. Votes: 0

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. Votes: 0

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too"“maybe even yours. Votes: 0

I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child. Votes: 0

It is a blessing. When I first got wind of [Chris Rivers] taking the rap thing serious and wanting to make a career out of it. Votes: 0

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true Votes: 0

As soon as you start wanting something, then your eyes can see; your mind will be open to identify all the possible ways of obtaining it. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent. Votes: 0

I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak. Votes: 0

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish. Votes: 0

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not. Votes: 0

I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more. Votes: 0

People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch. Votes: 0

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. Votes: 0

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long. Votes: 0

It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing. Votes: 0

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat. Votes: 0

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change. Votes: 0

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer. Votes: 0

And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.... Votes: 0

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change. Votes: 0

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later. Votes: 0

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Votes: 0

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. Votes: 0

Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand? Votes: 0

Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you. Votes: 0

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Votes: 0

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great. Votes: 0

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death. Votes: 0

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else. Votes: 0

Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it. Votes: 0

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. Votes: 0

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up. Votes: 0

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. Votes: 0

Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in fantasy fiction for young readers-you've found it! Votes: 0

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. Votes: 0

Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn't give it to you, because He knew you wouldn't be able to pay it. Votes: 0

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract. Votes: 0

To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time. Votes: 0

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind. Votes: 0

My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time. Votes: 0

I once talked about wanting to kill myself, but I don't think I was ever really planning on doing it. It was just comforting to know that I could. Votes: 0

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss. Votes: 0

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried. Votes: 0