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I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

I want to be an integrated woman.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.