wanted

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

—Emerson, RalphWaldo

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

—Gardner, Ava originally Lucy Johnson

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

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

—Quiller-Couch, SirArthurThomas known as  'Q'

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)

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