If you want to be old, hang yourself when you are young.
He who wants fruit should not pick flowers.
Everybody loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son.
Nothing so visible than what you want to hide.
Do today what you want to postpone until tomorrow.
Happiness flies away from those who want it most.
There is no worse devil than a farmer who wants to be a gentleman.
Where the body wants to rest, there the legs must carry it.
If you want to sweep the steps clean, start at the top.
God wanted to punish mankind, so he created lawyers.
If you want to sleep well, buy the bed of a bankrupt.
Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
There is no worse apprentice than the one who doesn't want to know.
If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.
This could be the last night of our lives, certainly the last even barely ordinary one. The last night we go to sleep and get up just as we always have. And all I could think of was that I wanted to spend it with you." Her heart skipped a beat. "Jace...
No, you will listen. For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. Because this isn't reasonable. If you're terrified, believe me--this scares the hell out of me, too....
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference. ...
I think she's afraid to even hug me now. It's my fault, but I miss it, Andrew. I miss it so much it aches sometimes, you know?' I do know. I want to tell him, but I let him talk. And he does, with a gut-wrenching honesty that tears at my heart. 'I wa...
But then again, that's what the Book of Job was about to her, a cautionary tale about wanting there to be a God, wanting there to be someone who could enact what a God could enact, or who could sanction what the Devil would do. You want this, people?...
Now, Mr. Antonio. I understand that there are people who are close to you who want me dead.” “No, mija. They don’t want you dead.” “Then explain this.” I handed him the picture. He chuckled again. “No, they don’t want you dead. That w...
