Want Something Quotes - Page 5

• Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.

  Lauren Oliver

  Might, Wells, Dies

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.421, Hachette UK

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• If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want, Ifs

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• I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Running, Feelings, Vision

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• One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

  Veronica Roth

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

  Amazon.com Q&A with Author, www.amazon.com.

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• Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host

  Stephenie Meyer

  Way, Host, Being True

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• Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Book, Writing

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• I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.

  Karen Hawkins

  Fate, Hands, Favors

  Karen Hawkins (2009). “Sleepless in Scotland”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

  S.J. Watson

  Desire, Want

  S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.147, Random House

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• We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we’re coming over there. If we don’t want anything from you, we’re not coming over there. Period. Please highlight this part right here so you can always remind yourself the next time a man steps to you: a man always wants something. Always. And when it comes to women, that plan is always to find out two things: (1) if you’re willing to sleep with him, and (2) if you are, how much it will cost to get you to sleep with him.

  Steve Harvey

  Sleep, Simple, Men

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• I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

  Stephanie Nielson

  Beautiful, Heart, Self Worth

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• No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

  Ann Patchett

  People, Telling The Truth, Horrible

  Ann Patchett (2012). “State of Wonder”, p.382, A&C Black

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• Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Thinking, Greed, May

  "Fictional character: Greed". Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Yaskusoku no hi), www.imdb.com. 2009-2010.

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• My mate Karl once told me he’d been looking after this five-year-old boy who – not knowing enough to have an ironic inflection to his words – said, ‘I want something.’ He didn’t know what it was. Not ‘I want sweets’, or ‘a can of Coke’, or ‘to watch the Tweenies’, or whatever it is they’re into now (I like Bagpuss), but ‘I want something.’ All of us, I think, have that feeling. And what heroin does when you first start taking it is tell you what that something is.

  Russell Brand

  Sweet, Boys, Thinking

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Want, Your Mom

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1805, Dell

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• When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Glasses

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Ambition, Thinking, Sound

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• I have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard them your entire life. Here are some of the main keys to being more successful: Take personal responsibility. Things change, so be flexible. Work smart and work hard. Serve others well. Be nice to others. Be optimistic. Have goals; want something big for yourself. Stay focused. Keep learning. Become excellent at what you do. Trust your gut. When in doubt, take action. Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. Enjoy all you've got. Above all keep it simple.

  Larry Winget

  Nice, Smart, Hard Work

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.19, Penguin

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• I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

  Junot Diaz

  Space, Want, Now And Then

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

  Harlan Coben

  Self, Want, Rationalize

  Harlan Coben (2013). “Six Years”, p.18, Penguin

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• An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

  David Foster

  Art, Genuine Smiles, Simulacrum

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• Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

  Rachel Cohn

  Islands, Want, Quiet

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• I don’t know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something.

  Veronica Roth

  Two, People, Firsts

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• Even if evolution were true, it wouldn't disprove God. God has performed more spectacular feats than evolution. It's not even a daunting challenge to a belief in God. If you want something that complicates a belief in God, try coming to terms with Michael Moore being one of God's special creatures.

  Ann Coulter

  Challenges, Special, Trying

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.199, Crown Forum

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• It’s just … everything. There are too many people. And I don’t fit in. I don’t know how to be. Nothing that I’m good at is the sort of thing that matters there. Being smart doesn’t matter—and being good with words. And when those things do matter, it’s only because people want something from me. Not because they want me.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Smart, People, Matter

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Gurbaksh Chahal (2008). “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”, p.71, Macmillan

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