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QUOTES including the word: "want"

Bernard Shaw:
  • As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

    • Ella Fitzgerald:
  • Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

    • Pablo Neruda:
  • I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

    • Akhmatova:
  • You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

    • Malatesta:
  • We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

    • Ravi Shankar:
  • The music I have learned and want to offer is like worship to God. It is absolutely like a prayer.

    • Sarojini Naidu:
  • We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

    • Jalaluddin Rumi:
  • I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

    • Schopenhauer:
  • A man can do what he wants, but not know what he wants.

    • Nina Simone:
  • Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

    • Rene Crevel:
  • Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.

    • Chanel:
  • A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

    • Renoir:
  • When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.”

    • George Eliot:
  • It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

    • Pinto Andrade:
  • I want to surround myself with people who can touch the hearts of others

    • Socrates:
  • If you want to shake the world, shake yourself first.

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them

    • Bausch:
  • I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

    • Sylvia Plath:
  • Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

    • Exupery:
  • If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

    • Franz Kafka:
  • Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

    • Leo Tolstoy:
  • If you want to be happy, be.

    • Toulouse:
  • These people annoy me. They want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. Look, it is so easy to finish things.

    • Rilke:
  • Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

    • Pushkin:
  • I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

    • Pinto Andrade:
  • I want to live among human people, very human. People, who can laugh at their mistakes.

    • Karl Popper:
  • No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

    • Apollinaire:
  • I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts

    • Nazim Hikmet:
  • You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want to anyway. I have a headache, my knees are full of scars I am in mud all around I struggle to walk towards your hesitant light.”

    • Ibsen:
  • A forest bird never wants a cage.

    • Balzac:
  • “It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

    • Racine:
  • I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

    • Chairil Anwar:
  • I want to live another thousand years.

    • Montessori:
  • When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.

    • Charles Aznavour:
  • There comes an age, when you want a nature instead of the city and crowds. Parisian statues are awesome, but its nature is not so fascinating

    • Bob Dylan:
  • A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

    • Nietzsche:
  • Faith is not wanting to know what is true.

    • Jim Morrison:
  • ach generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

    • Freddie Mercury:
  • When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

    • Bob Marley:
  • God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die

    • Robespierre:
  • Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

    • cummings:
  • The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

    • Pavarotti:
  • I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

    • Bernard Shaw:
  • When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

    • George Orwell:
  • If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • “After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.

    • Virginia Satir:
  • I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

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

    • Bob Dylan:
  • If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

    • Nietzsche:
  • The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous play thing.

    • Oscar Wilde:
  • “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

    • Beethoven:
  • I want to seize fate by the throat.

    • Henry Miller:
  • Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

    • Nadine Gordimer:
  • Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

    • Mario Benedetti:
  • We all want what can not be done, we are fanatical admirers of the forbidden

    • Sinclair Lewis:
  • I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.

    • Henri Bergson:
  • ..Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.”

    • Seneca:
  • We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

    • Tennessee Williams:
  • I don’t want realism. I want magic!

    • John Steinbeck:
  • You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.

    • Lawrence:
  • I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

    • Nietzsche:
  • I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

    • Confucius:
  • I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that.

    • de Sade,Marquis:
  • “What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

    • Diogenes:
  • It is the privilege of the Gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

    • Epictetus:
  • Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

    • George Orwell:
  • Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

    • Horace:
  • As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state... fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

    • Salvador Dali:
  • At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

    • Chanel:
  • Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.

    • Anton Chekhov:
  • Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • What does culture want; To make infinity comprehensible.

    • Maya Angelou:
  • Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

    • Luther:
  • If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • I don't want to die an old lady.

    • Thomas Eliot:
  • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.

    • Samuel Johnson:
  • We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

    • Aeshop:
  • It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

    • Isaac Asimov:
  • They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

    • Salvador Dali:
  • Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

    • Jane Austen:
  • I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

    • Spinoza:
  • If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”

    • W. Burroughs:
  • The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

    • Bertrand Russell:
  • The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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