Wanting Quotes

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat

Life, Love, Good

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain

Someone, Person, Else

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Happiness, Getting

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin

Everything, Sense

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Started, Five, Actress

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Winning, Everything, Win

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Difficult, Found, Tried

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.
Bill Cosby

Women, Men, Children

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
Warren Buffett

Time, Fear, Takes

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia Plath

Nothing, Everything, Find

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

Enough, Motivation, Order

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Difficult, Found

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Sylvia Plath

Time, Two, Same

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
Jason Ritter

Fake, Friend, Coming

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Blaise Pascal

Heart, Consult, Ear

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Harvey Fierstein

Writing, Thought, Acting

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian Eno

Live, Mind, Forget

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Henri Nouwen

Successful, Become, Culture

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka

Spiritual, Means, Point

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Franz Kafka

Time, Read, Spend

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
Doug Coupland

Real, Possible, Actually

I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know.
Claire Danes

Girl, Jealous, Two

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
Gerald Jampolsky

Change, Peace, Mind

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot

Faithful, Unfaithful

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
Moliere

Place, Greater, Follies

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall

History, Attention, Individual

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks

Happiness, Getting

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
Judith Viorst

Love, Makes, Desire

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
Hedy Lamarr

Great, Someone, Else

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