Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.
I've been trying to make records and I describe it almost like a "movie for your ears" where it's a little unconventional in its shape and form, but there's something that's intriguing in keeping you wanting to wait and see the next frame of film, except in here what's coming around the corner for your ears.
When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting.
I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year
If I could just get over my issues of wanting people to like me.
You can't get anywhere in this world without wanting to do something.
I just can't imagine that people would stand for it. People are wanting to potentially elect someone who will get our troops out, so at this stage, if the draft was reinstated, I just think that people would have none of it.
If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: "I trust you". The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play.
Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.
Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
I find my greatest strength in wanting to be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave. I don't know if I've ever realized it before,[. . . ] I think we both realize it now. If there's no feeling of fear, then there's no need for courage.
Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.
I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.