Want Something Quotes - Page 8

• God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

  Paulo Coelho

  Want

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

  Melina Marchetta

  Giving, Return, Persons

  Melina Marchetta (2010). “Jellicoe Road”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Inspirational, Fear, Sometimes

  Matthew J. Kirby (2011). “Icefall”, p.267, Scholastic Inc.

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• I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn’t think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn’t hold it against them in the long run. We couldn’t afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.

  Kiera Cass

  Running, Thinking, Luxury

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Running, Momentum, Repeats

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Aug 07, 2014

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• Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.

  Lauren Oliver

  Might, Wells, Dies

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.421, Hachette UK

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• If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want, Ifs

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• I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.

  Karen Hawkins

  Fate, Hands, Favors

  Karen Hawkins (2009). “Sleepless in Scotland”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Running, Feelings, Vision

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• One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

  Veronica Roth

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

  Amazon.com Q&A with Author, www.amazon.com.

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• Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host

  Stephenie Meyer

  Way, Host, Being True

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• All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Change, Thinking, Years

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• I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Brother, Nice

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  "Andrew Murray On Prayer".

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• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

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• I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Real, Sunlight, Feels

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Sadness, Guitar, Skins

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Want, Thousand

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• You want something to drink?” – Nick “Human blood would be fabulous. But since I doubt you’re donating, let me suffer for a minute longer.” – Caleb

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blood, Doubt, Suffering

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• In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Want, Your Mom

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1805, Dell

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• My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

  Russell Brand

  Sweet, Boys, Thinking

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Thinking, Greed, May

  "Fictional character: Greed". Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Yaskusoku no hi), www.imdb.com. 2009-2010.

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• No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

  Ann Patchett

  People, Telling The Truth, Horrible

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.382, A&C Black

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• I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Beautiful, Heart, Self Worth

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• We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we’re coming over there. If we don’t want anything from you, we’re not coming over there. Period. Please highlight this part right here so you can always remind yourself the next time a man steps to you: a man always wants something. Always. And when it comes to women, that plan is always to find out two things: (1) if you’re willing to sleep with him, and (2) if you are, how much it will cost to get you to sleep with him.

  Steve Harvey

  Sleep, Simple, Men

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