want Quotes

“One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want—and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

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“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want . . . I want everything.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“We were closely pinched to bring our wants within our means; but the jail stood over the way, and I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.”

― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom

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“You are one of those things that are ever found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never!”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

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