Most Wanted Quotes

• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Ambition, Christian Inspirational, Devil

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.

  Neil Turok

  Age, And Love, Capture

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• Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Science, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.363, Princeton University Press

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• That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.

  Liza Cody

  Lying, Important, Remember

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• I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Book, Blessing, Thinking

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• We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Peace, Criminals, Mexico

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• I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to look like. That's what it did look like.

  Bill Ayers

  Two, Wife, Looks

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• I'm happy. I have a man who makes me happy. And a family, which is what I most wanted in life.

  Shakira

  Men, Make Me Happy, Wanted

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Apologizing, Boring, Worst

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

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• People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

  Timothy Keller

  Afterlife, People, Masters

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• I knew something was wrong that day, he made the mistakes [Pablo Escobar] had never committed throughout the last 10 years as the most wanted man in the world in one day. He never used the phone, he only did the day he was killed.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Mistake, Men, Years

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

  Josie Maran

  Challenges, Trying, Pavement

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• I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

  Margaret Mahy

  Children, Writing, Long

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• The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clouds, Evil, Sun

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• And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.

  Max Muller

  Race, Order, Perfect

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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• You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.

  Howie Carr

  Organization, House, Top 10

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. June 23, 2011.

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• My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

  Yancy Butler

  America, Juniors, Junior High

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• When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

  Eddie Cantor

  Lists, Made, Feels

  Eddie Cantor (1959). “The way I see it”

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• The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Three, Lists

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

  Edith Wharton

  Wife, Long, House

  Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love You, Receiving Love, Skills

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.11, St. Martin's Press

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• He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.

  Luis Sepúlveda

  Memories, Fall, Age

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• The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moments, Wanted, Loses

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 23, 2012

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