Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Essays: Second Series,'Nominalist and Realist'.

What I'd really liketosayabout stardom isthat it gave me everything I never wanted.

-Gardner, Ava originally Lucy Johnson
  Ava: My Story.

So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

-Hazlitt,William
Literary Remains (published1836),'My First  Acquaintance with Poets'.

Nobody has ever been able to define jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wantedto, knowing how muchyou would have to leave out of the definition.

-Kingsley, Mary Henrietta
  The Jazz  Anthology, ch.1

Not as we wanted it, But as God granted it.

-Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'
  'To Bearers'.

He looked like the kind of guy that wouldn't talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.11.