Want Something Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Sympathy, Buddhist, Disappointment

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• Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen.

  Paulo Coelho

  Positive Thinking, Remember, Happens

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• The Warrior of the light knows that when somebody wants something, the whole Universe conspires in their favor.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it?
  Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people.
  This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Truth, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  World, Halfway, Over The Top

  "Over the Top". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• If you want something you have to will it into experience

  Dominick Cruz

  Mma, Want, Ifs

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• If you want something to work, if it means that much to you; KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

  Michael Ealy

  Mean, Want, Ifs

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• You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

  John Cassavetes

  Humility, Too Much, Talent

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• If you want something, give it

  Deepak Chopra

  Giving, Want, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Feb 02, 2011

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• Never want something without expecting it

  Bob Proctor

  Want, Expecting

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• Everything is possible. If you want something, give something.

  Deepak Chopra

  Giving, Want, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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• Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

  Marlon Brando

  Long, People, Acting

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ministry, Want, Want U

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• If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

  Will Smith

  Want

  "Fictional character: Christopher Gardner". "The Pursuit of Happyness", www.imdb.com. December 15, 2006.

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• The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

  John Boehner

  Thinking, Government, People

  Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2010.

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• We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Love, Men, Affectionate

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• Personalities don't love.
  They want something.

  Byron Katie

  Personality, Ego, Katie

  Twitter post from Feb 26, 2011

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Yellow

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
  It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

  Stendhal

  Air, Hands, Bored

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sky, Pie, Stills

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• You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Want, Way

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• The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Minorities, Firsts

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

  Glen Duncan

  Fiction, Entertainment, Genre

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• I can do everything skinny girls can do, trust me. I honestly think Hollywood is getting real. They're saying, 'Hey this is what a lot of America looks like,' a lot of America doesn't wear a size 2. I think the studios and the media are starting to realize that overweight people want something they can relate to, so let's give it to them.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Girl, Real, Thinking

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• If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Desire, Helping

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