Wanted Quotes - Page 17

• You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Jobs, Feel Better, Thinking

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• He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.

  Richard Yates

  Mean, Knowing, Nurse

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• She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Helping Others, Nurse

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• I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Boxing

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• To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Wall, Blue, Way

  Song: For You, Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., 1973

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• When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.

  Sam Levenson

  Mother, Home, Assessment

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• You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Voice, People, Listening

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• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  Ted Olson

  Airplane, Planes, Being True

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• I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

  Kim Novak

  Hollywood, Able, Aviation

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• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  Jacques Chirac

  Europe, Joining, Way

  "Chirac Lashes Out at 'New Europe'". edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2003.

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• Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Decline, Found

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• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  Warren Rudman

  Taken, Aggravation, Long

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• He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Sports, Character, Greatness

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• I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first.

  Jim Abbott

  Baseball, Kids, Hands

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• By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

  Christopher Nolan

  Film

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Extravagant

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• I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

  Rick James

  Thinking, Play, Long

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Sep 23, 2013

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• Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.

  Nicki Minaj

  Lavender, Wearing Pink, Venture

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• I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Dream, Airplane, Kids

  "The Unflinching Eye: Photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. July 12, 1987.

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• In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life.
  I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment.
  But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

  Rumi

  Fake, Needs, Facts

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• It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

  Emile Zola

  Joy, Had Enough, Virtue

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• I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms me.""Oh." She offered him a tenuous smile. "I'm just used to people condemning everything I do."He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles. "I don't condemn you, my lady. I only admire you.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Compassion, Hands, People

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• I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

  Richard Dawkins

  Forgiving, Generations, Why Not

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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