Want Something Quotes - Page 7

• There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Knowing, Deeper

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?

  Nalini Singh

  Hurt, Pain, Loss

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• Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.

  Jenny Downham

  Life, Missing Someone, Believe

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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Break, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.598, Simon and Schuster

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• Often the greatest act of courage is admitting that one has made a mistake...Follow your hearts. Protect one another, trust one another, because, at the end of the day, all of these people want something from you, or want you to do something for them, or be something that you are not. Your own responsibility is to one another.

  Michael Scott

  Mistake, Heart, Responsibility

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• The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Mean, Thinking

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• what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Want, Ifs

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Less Than Zero”, p.189, Vintage

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• Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Doe

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

  James Patterson

  Life, Unrequited Love, Knowing

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• I nodded. A man's world. But what did it mean? That men whistled and stared and yelled things at you, and you had to take it, or you get raped or beat up? A man's world meant places men could go but not women. It meant they had more money,and didn't have kids, not the way women did, to look after every second. And it meant that women loved them more than they loved the women, that they could want something with all their hearts, and then not.

  Janet Fitch

  Mean, Kids, Heart

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• Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". "The Simpsons". Season 4, Episode 1: "Kamp Krusty", www.imdb.com. September 24, 1992.

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• If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Way, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Lakes, Rose

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• In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our lives finally add up to what we have really wanted most--for good or otherwise. We can indeed have eternal life, if we really want it, so long as we don't want something else more.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Running, Long, Choices

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• Maybe you just never knew what it was like to want something you couldn't have before

  Cassandra Clare

  Want

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1009, Simon and Schuster

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• When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Glasses

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

  Joe McNally

  Photography, Light, Editors

  Joe McNally (2008). “The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters”, p.141, Pearson Education

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• That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Two, Say Anything, Reason

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Choice”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Overcoming, Stories

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.48, Thomas Nelson

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• It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Desire, What You Deserve

  Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Heart, Soul

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders, doing as you're told.

  Ilona Andrews

  Responsibility, Thinking, Order

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• If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.

  Christopher McCandless

  This Life, Reach Out, Ifs

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• When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

  Philippa Gregory

  Unhappy, Desire, Firsts

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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