Best What You Want Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 18

“What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.”

Want Care Relationship What You Want Away From You

“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

Book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.”

Want Difficult Figures What You Want Getting What You Want

Book:The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

Want Life Destiny Environment Influence Masters Direct What You Want Your Destiny Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Control Your Destiny

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”

Want Writing Care Listening Madness Don't Care What You Want Moonlight

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.”

Want Needs Giving Reason What You Want Justify I Want You

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God said, "No" Abe say, "What?" God say, "You can do what you want, Abe, but The next time you see me comin', you better run" Well, Abe said, "Where d'you want this killin' done?" God said, "Out on Highway 61".”

Men Want Said Done Running Next Can Do Son Killing What You Want Next Time Highways Kill Me Abraham Abe

Author:Bob Dylan

“You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.”

Knows Want Giving Believe Can Do Who You Are What You Want Believe In Me True You

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.”

Ifs Knows Want Kind Has Beens Answers Cat What You Want If I Could I Am What I Am

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.”

Want Giving Whole What You Want Want Me Darling You Want Me

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”

Source: Yours If You Ask

“Wish for what you want, work for what you need. -Carmen's grandmother”

Want Needs Wish What You Want Grandmother

Author:Ann Brashares

“I hate time. It never does what you want it to.”

Want Doe Hate I Hate What You Want

Book:Slam

Source: Slam

“Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.”

Want What You Want

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.”

People Thinking Knows Want Feels Hard Happens Would Be Natural Plans Be Good What You Want Interfere Someone You Love

Author:John Irving

“The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to persuade the audience and have the audience think you're smart and cool. And Socrates and Plato, basically their whole idea is, "Bullshit. There is such a thing as truth, and it's not all just how to say what you say so that you get a good job or get laid, or whatever it is people think they want.”

People Thinking Want Ideas Whole Able Jobs Forget Audience Smart What You Want Rhetoric Bullshit Plato Good Job Getting Laid

Author:David Foster Wallace

“First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.”

Want Needs Firsts Causes Figures Dad What You Want

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Persons Ends Realizing Strange Give Me What You Want Finite Chill Strange Things

Book:The Wonder Spot

Source: The Wonder Spot

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

Source: True Believer

“But it does not seem that I can trust anyone,' said Frodo. Sam looked at him unhappily. 'It all depends on what you want,' put in Merry. 'You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin--to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours--closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.”

Want Doe Said I Can Ends Seems Faces Secret Trouble Depends Sticks What You Want Bitter Thick Merry Frodo Fellowship Of The Ring Thick And Thin Through Thick And Thin

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.”

Ifs Knows Want Done Wanted Happened Adults What You Want Statements Weather Do You Know Boast Quaint Girlhood Brash

Book:I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

Source: I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories

“It's not easy-living in a void, living and dying inside your head…wanting what you want so much that you'd give everything else to get it- but the time still passes, the days go on…and as long as there's still a tomorrow, there's always a chance.”

Want Giving Long Stills Easy Chance Dying Goes On Tomorrow What You Want Void Dying Inside Easy Living

Book:Candy

Source: Candy

“Repetition is sometimes the best way to deal with the Luideag: just keep saying the same thing over and over until she gets fed up and gives you what you want. All preschoolers have an instinctive grasp of this concept, but most don’t practice it on immortal water demons. That’s probably why there are so few disembowelments in your average preschool.”

Way Want Giving Sometimes Water Deals Practice Concepts Average What You Want Best Way Demon Immortal Feds Repetition Fed Up Preschool Saying The Same Thing Over And Over

Author:Mira Grant

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”

Thinking Knows Want What You Want You Think You Know

Author:Joe Hill

“There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God," Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.”

Want Believe Kind Long Said Seems Pay Accepting Principles Don't Believe What You Want Purity Divinity Believe In God Crucial Fascinated Blazing Spanish Proverb

Author:Tana French

“People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.”

People Want Motivational Spiritual Asks Positive Confidence What You Want Self Confidence Certainty Law Of Attraction Uncertain Boldness Confidence In Yourself Hesitant Chicken Soup

Author:Jack Canfield

“Life only has the value a person gives it. If I killed you here and now, yours would be worthless and no one would mourn you. Is that really what you want? (Sin) I don’t own my life. It means nothing to me. (Kish) Then it means nothing to anyone. But if you had your life again, would it still be worthless? (Sin)”

Ifs Want Giving Mean Persons Stills Would Be Values Sin What You Want Worthless Here And Now Mourn

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”

Ifs Want Might Asks Humorous What You Want Obedience Ask Me

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.”

Want What You Want Notebook Notebook Love

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”

Knows Want Values What You Want

Book:Morrigan's Cross

Source: Morrigan's Cross

“We all have regrets, Urian. Nothing that lives is immune from that nasty emotion. (Acheron) So what? You want me to go kiss and make up? (Urian) Hardly. But I want you to set aside your own hurt and anger to see clearly for a minute. This isn’t about you and your father anymore than it’s about me and Nick hating each other over something we can’t change. This is about saving the lives of a million innocent people. People like Phoebe who don’t deserve to be hunted and killed. If I can stand at the side of my enemies for the greater good, so can you. (Acheron)”

“Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want to know. There's no need to torture me for it. (Asmodeus) Pick your brain is an idiomatic expression, Asmodeus. It means we’ll have you tell us things. We’re not actually going in there to mess with your head. (Delphine) Oh, thank the Source. I can’t stand it when someone opens my skull. It really hurts. (Asmodeus)”

Knows Want Needs Wells Mean I Can Hurt Brain Enemy Expression Source Picks What You Want Mess Torture Skulls Advisors Jericho It Really Hurts Asmodeus

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You have such interesting thoughts. No wonder witches are ephemeral. You drive yourself crazy. You should simply do what you want without the soul-searching. It will be easier in the long run, Rachel Mariana Morgan.”

Want Should Long Soul Running Interesting Wonder Crazy Easier What You Want Witch Long Runs Soul Searching Ephemeral

Author:Kim Harrison

“Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.”

Want Firsts Moving Dating What You Want

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Despite the aweful paparazzi drama that people seem to believe, i am still just like you...i obsess over hot guys, get told what to do, and go to school. Believe what you want, but i am NORMAL...whatever that means :)”

People Want Believe Mean Stills Seems School Guy Like You Drama Normal Hot What You Want Despite Paparazzi Hot Guy

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love”

World Want Stories Fall Space Paper Weak Assuming Meetings Falling In Love What You Want Immense Probability Signals Lure Outer Space Understand Me

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”

Want Two Different Tough What You Want Different Things Tigers Toenails

Book:Three Weeks With My Brother

Source: Three Weeks With My Brother

“How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”

Want Stills Eye Watches Mouths Shadow What You Want Trapped Caves

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.”

World Want Space Forget Clear Pieces Share Opposites Blue Who You Are Extraordinary Glasses What You Want Glorious Awe Sunrise Epiphany True Beauty North Of Beautiful

Author:Justina Chen

“Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.”

Way Want Sometimes Secret What You Want Loyalty

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?”

Ifs Want Writing What You Want

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad." -Kyo talking to Tohru”

People Want Would Be Hate Talking Cases Okay I Hate What You Want Complaining Selfish Hate People Being Selfish I Hate People

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Character Fiction Expression West What You Want Versions Fascinated Nonfiction Spain Old West

Author:Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

“you have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".”

Want Wish Realizing What You Want Here I Am

Author:Joyce Meyer

“The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.”

Want Worry What You Want Getting What You Want

Book:Summers of the Sisterhood

Source: Summers of the Sisterhood

“Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock...”

Knows Want What You Want Chains Going Away Know Me

Author:Shel Silverstein

“You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,” he went on. “I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream. -Lucien to Alice”

Thinking Knows Want Dream Interest Assuming What You Want Acquaintance

Book:Lord of Fire

Source: Lord of Fire

“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”

Want Needs What You Want

Book:Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“You try to give away what you want yourself.”

Want Giving Trying What You Want

Book:Memory (Hardcover)

Source: Memory (Hardcover)

“People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their actions. And you have to listen. I don't know what will happen with your lady friend. I think she's a nice person, and I hope you get what you want. But do me a favor: Listen, and don't ignore what you hear.”

People Thinking Knows Want Feels Trying Persons Happens Action Nice What You Want Favors Always Trying Nice Person

Author:Justin Halpern

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