| "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." »Garrison Keillor |
| "It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me." »Gloria Vanderbilt |
| "She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what." »Kate Chopin |
| "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." »Jane Wagner |
| "It is very Hard to let go of things you never had...........But always wanted" »Siddharth Astir |
| "At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be." »Vinny Nayak |
| "There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving." »Phylicia Rashad |
| "I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing." »Charles Bukowski |
| "If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets." »Mel Brooks |
| "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." »Henny Youngman |
| "All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific." »Jane Wagner |
| "Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to." »Joe Gores |
| "Tommy If I wanted a kiss I'd call your mother." »Tommy Boy |
| "The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." »G. C. Lichtenberg |
| "Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation." »Lawana Blackwell |
| "And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after." »David Seltzer |
| "Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do." »Robert Henri |
| "When I held you in my arms at your baptism, I wanted it to be a fresh start, for you to be more complete than we had ever been ourselves, but I wonder if we expected too much." »Richard Olton |
| "Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart." »Margaret Cho |
| "I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." »Sally Field |
| "I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket." »Sylvia Plath |
| "I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to." »Dave Barry |
| "Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose." »Andrew A. Rooney |
| "I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." »Sandra Cisneros |
| "War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away." »Tom Lehrer |
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