Wanted Quotes - Page 9

• It occurs to me: why is it mainly women, who to pass on the faith? Simply because the one who brought us Jesus is a woman. It is the path chosen by Jesus. He wanted to have a mother: the gift of faith comes to us through women, as Jesus came to us through Mary.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Jesus, Path

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• I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

  Carl Jung

  Rooms

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Teacher, Morning, Children

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• Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Eye, Greed, World

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• But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

  Diane Wakoski

  Political, Events, Way

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• I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

  Diane Wakoski

  Writing, Interesting, Firsts

  Diane Wakoski (1974). “Trilogy: Coins & Coffins: Discrepancies and Apparitions; The George Washington Poems”

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• I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

  Edie Falco

  Goal, Acting, My Time

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• No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

  Bernard Levin

  Believe, Absurdity, Manifest

  Bernard Levin (1970). “Run it Down the Flagpole: Britain in the Sixties”

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• I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

  Count Basie

  Real, Play, Tunes

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• I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

  Sara Sheridan

  Heart, Adventure, Ends

  Sara Sheridan (1998). “Truth or dare”, Random House (UK)

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• If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Teenager, Twenties, Puberty

  "The Replacement". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2008.

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• That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Destiny, Consciousness

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• The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.

  Aerin Lauder

  Interesting, Feelings, Scent

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• But when’s the last time you took a chance? Or didn’t do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn’t have?

  Jessi Kirby

  Lasts, Chance, Last Time

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Valleys, Glory, Gods Will

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• Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown

  Vera Wang

  Girl, Ready

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• Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

  Peter Hitchens

  Beach, Lonely, Believe

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• The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.

  Robby Krieger

  Song, Crazy, Kids

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• When I was younger I knew I could do anything - I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea - I'd rather be a rock star.

  Kurt Cobain

  Stars, Stupid, Rocks

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• I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

  Mary Oliver

  Alive, Littles, Knows

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Romantic, Dream, Wedding

  "Sinead O'Connor Jets to Las Vegas For a 'Proper Rock 'N' Roll Wedding'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 08, 2011.

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• I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

  Brooke Shields

  Smile, Beautiful, Girl

  "Brooke Shields: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.

  Michael Chang

  Smile, Winning, Thinking

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• I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

  Max Ehrmann

  Writing, Things In Life, Disease

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.4, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

  Lori Lansens

  Aunt, Voice, One Day

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.6, Vintage Canada

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