I Want You Quotes - Page 2

• I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  Stories, Want, Sometimes

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Real, Believe

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• Because I want every breath you take to be empty unless you're close enough to smell me. Every word you speak to be unimportant unless it's to me. Every sound you hear empty unless it's my voice. I want you to remember that whatever pleasure you have from now on, you'll have it from me. ~Rurik Wilder~

  Christina Dodd

  Voice, Smell, Sound

  Christina Dodd (2007). “Touch of Darkness: Darkness Chosen”, p.91, Penguin

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• What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Night

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• I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

  Ray Bradbury

  Plato, Book, Evil

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• I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you, I am nothing but a dream. You like to play with life, you're not afraid of anything, not even of me. But I want you to know that I am not an object or a doll: I don't change faces on command, I like to sit down every day in the same place, on my own chair, and I know that you, you like to leave, to go to a new place every day.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Dream, Thinking, Play

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• I do think my mother was a bit overprotective, not in any sordid way, but just normally. She certainly might say to me, "You know, Laura, I don't have a good feeling about that guy. I don't know if I want you to go out with him."

  Laura Dern

  Mother, Thinking, Guy

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• I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Clever, Stupid, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.154, Macmillan

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• Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

  Bette Greene

  Forget Everything, Giving, Want

  Bette Greene (1993). “Morning Is a Long Time Coming”, Laurel Leaf

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• Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Want, Farewell To Arms

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

  John Cusack

  Love You, Thinking, Long

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• Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

  Shelley Duvall

  Smart, Dirty, Naughty

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• Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

  Alicia Keys

  People, Passionate, Want

  "Alicia Keys Taps Mos Def Common For 'Inspired' 'Unplugged'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 19, 2005.

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• The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn't be concerned about why He said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don't try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn't try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain. We spend useless time.

  Harold B. Lee

  Thinking, Trying, Answers

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• I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

  Stephen King

  Should Have, America, Want

  "Mitt Romney: Chen debacle marks 'dark day for freedom' - US politics live", www.theguardian.com.

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• I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

  Willie Aames

  Inspirational, Years, People

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• If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Thinking, Talking, Names

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.

  Judy Blume

  Baby, Strong, Nice

  Judy Blume (2012). “Forever . . .”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

  Joel Osteen

  Children, Blessed, People

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• I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

  Mitt Romney

  Europe, White, House

  "The New Mitt: Tougher, Shinier, with a Hint of Nixon" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2012.

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• When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.

  J.R. Ward

  Want

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.404, Penguin

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• What's your name?" what?" i asked, squinting at the light. your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me. you know my name." I want you to tell me." Rose. Rose Hathaway." Do you know your birthday?" Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?" Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine.

  Richelle Mead

  Stupid, Thinking, Light

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• I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

  Meryl Streep

  Ties, Needs, Imagine

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Temptation, Watches, Attention

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