Want Me Quotes - Page 13

• [her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?

  Steve Martin

  Color, Essence, Mind

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

  Gavin DeGraw

  Dad, Guitar, Play

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• I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

  Curt Schilling

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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• It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends

  Harvey Pekar

  Light, Want, Written

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.107, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly unless you have the right set of values and understand why you're doing it. Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already gotten to that point, and seen all the yuck stuff - which is probably why they originally didn't want me to act.

  Laura Dern

  People, Ugly, Get Real

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• This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

  Abbi Glines

  Rejection, Going Away, Care

  Abbi Glines (2012). “While it Lasts”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.

  Abbi Glines

  Broken, Too Late, Want

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.612, Simon and Schuster

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• What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

  George MacDonald

  Doe, Want, Ifs

  George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.69, VM eBooks

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• Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.

  Abbi Glines

  Summer, Moving, Want

  Abbi Glines (2013). “While It Lasts”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War.

  Meg Cabot

  War, Home, Years

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour”, p.57, Zondervan

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• From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?" "Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.

  John Green

  Blood, Talking, Car

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.255, A&C Black

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• A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good.

  Can Themba

  Book, Thinking, Hymns

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• He isn’t like us Low. You know that right.” I knew what Cage was saying. Marcus was out of my league. He didn’t want me thinking there could ever be anything between me and his roommate. I was low class. Marcus was a rich kid. “I’m not stupid Cage.

  Abbi Glines

  Stupid, Kids, Thinking

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 1: Breathe; Because of Low; While It Lasts”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter. I don't really have that sort of strong gender identity-I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it's just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.

  Andrej Pejic

  Strong, Makeup, Boys

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• I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

  Seth Godin

  Hands, Want, Raises

  Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, thegreatdiscontent.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent senior officials from freelancing, or putting their departmental interests first. For all the formal machinery, Eisenhower was very literally the commander in chief, making the key decisions himself and monitoring closely how they were carried out. Even years after D-Day, when critics needled him for not being on the front lines with the invading forces, he retorted, “I planned it and took responsibility for it. Did you want me to unload a truck?

  Nancy Gibbs

  Senior, Running, Responsibility

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?

  Zach Braff

  Liars, Trials, Fudge

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• Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

  Bill Bryson

  Dog, Earth, Want

  Bill Bryson (2000). “Down Under”, Doubleday Books

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• God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Mean, People, Missionary

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• Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

  Charles Studd

  Loneliness, Heart, Wish

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• Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar: I know, every time. Joe: Sugar, do yourself a favor. Go back to where the millionaires are, the sweet end of the lollipop, not the cole slaw in the face, the old socks and the squeezed-out tube of toothpaste. Sugar: That's right. Pour it on. Talk me out of it. (She grabs him to kiss him.)

  Marilyn Monroe

  Running, Sweet, Liars

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• We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Nature, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

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• I can be a very valuable friend to you, but you do not want me as an enemy.

  Matthew Quick

  Enemy, Want, Valuable

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Did you want me to stay?" Kylie's yes and Lucas' no chimed out at the same time. "Sorry," Lucas said, not sounding sorry as he looked at Della. "But I need Kylie's full attention to teach her, and you would just distract her." "Right," Della said in a tone of complete disbelief. Lucas frowned at the vamp. "Okay," Della said. "I'll just mosey along.

  C.C. Hunter

  Sorry, Needs, Attention

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• Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

  Pedro Poveda Castroverde

  God, Christian, Work

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