"I no longer want to walk on worn soles."
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"I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along."
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"We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations."
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"Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards."
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"Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance."
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"He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart."
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"I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory ."
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"I want to make sure my family's straight."
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"There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are."
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"It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not."
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"So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one."
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"The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt."
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"I want to demystify what it means to leave a legacy for young people."
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"What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension."
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"You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught."
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"The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it."
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"Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?"
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"I don't want no better book than what your face is."
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"Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten."
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"That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."
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