“I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and hopefully I'll have the right clothes on. I think what we're going to do is bring the boat through the Panama Canal. My husband has always wanted to do that. So I think we'll do that and have the boat in Florida for the winter.” ThinkingWantedLordFiguresHusbandClothesWinterBoatHopefullyMidstMy HusbandFloridaRight PlaceCanalsPanamaRenovationPanama Canal Author:Florence Henderson
“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindBigsWantedStuffParentCitiesLordComedyFansDadJazzMy DadLakesSaltHipsterBeatnikSalt Lake City Author:Judd Apatow
“The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.” WellsWantedKnownLordSawsGenerationsAccountsIntelligentDetailsCommunicateFamiliarDescriptionNew ThingsWell KnownExile Author:Maimonides
“Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.” ShouldHas BeensMightWantedJoyTurnsJesusFeltDifficultMy OwnLordImagineEventsSorrowBenefitsTragedyContraryThis LifeShockUnexpectedGoing AwayProvidenceApostlesSetbackDepartureFathomBewildermentInscrutable Author:Patrick Madrid
“My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'” WantLooksWantedMotherChurchLordNicePraiseDressesWineHeyCrackersPraise The Lord Author:Warren Hutcherson
“If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.” IfsChildrenMatterDoneWould BeWantedSchoolPoliticalCoursesLordNeededHorrorShameBurdenBoatJournalismFishingWhat MattersDisgraceGeographyDishonorNorwayGreat PoliticalMaelstromFishing Boats Author:Jane Swisshelm
“People wanted to move to America because of Michael Jackson. Industry changed, the music industry changed, because of Michael Jackson. That's a gift to us, and, you know, I am concerned that the Good Lord may not send another one because we did not take good care of him.” PeopleKnowsMayCareWantedAmericaMovingLordChangedIndustryConcernedMusic Industry Author:Wesley Snipes
“When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved obviously and openly fit that description: They came with maps and glossaries and timelines - books like Lord Of The Rings, Dune, The Chronicles Of Narnia. I imagined that's what being a writer was: You invented a world, and you did it in a very detailed way, and you told stories that were set in that world.” WorldWayYearsFirstsBookStoriesWantedLordFitDecidedRingsDescriptionMapsChroniclesNarniaTimelines Author:Michael Chabon
“How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.” PeopleWorldLooksWholeRealityWantedLordPiecesTearsHusbandClothesBlameLuckKarmaCleverWhole WorldCunningFacade Book:SHOGUN Source: SHOGUN
“St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.” MenWantedLordEventsOrdinaryGreat Things Author:Josemaria Escriva
“Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!” LooksHandsWantedMotherTurnsLordTeachWonderfulSonPureTreatsMaryYour Son Author:Josemaria Escriva
“When I first read Lord of the Rings I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.” FirstsWantedFilmLordTechnologyRingsCgi Author:Christopher Lee
“People told me to give up trying to be special and settle down to a regular life. There ain't nothing wrong with a regular life, and that's the Lord's truth...but it wasn't for me, because I wanted to be something special. I knew how easy it was for a dream to die. I seen that all around me. You could let it die by just looking the other way.” PeopleWayGivingTryingDreamWantedDiesEasyLordSpecialGiving UpSettlingSomething SpecialSettling Down Author:Walter Dean Myers
“When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name.” GivingWantedHouseNamesLeftBehindsLordGive MeEgyptBondage Author:Sojourner Truth
“I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.” PeopleWantGivingWantedTurnsInterestLordRichPsychologyToo MuchShareTeachingBehaviorModelsEconomicsIndependentCompetitionObsessionGet RichEthosIntersectionsKeynesTeaching OthersPersonal Behavior Author:Charlie Munger
“I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.” WorldWantedNationsLordFireCryBonesLatterBurnedThunderLatter Days Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.” MeanWantedChristLordDrawsCapacityFaultsOur LordChrist Like Author:Desmond Tutu
“You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.” GodWantedLordHigherYieldBowsFrailHigher PowerMost WantedAka Book:Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams Source: Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams