Famous quotes containing the word wanted:
“When one wanted ones interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other peoples tricks.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“The difference between guilt and shame is very clearin theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”
—Lewis B. Smedes, U.S. psychologist, educator. Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Dont Deserve, ch. 2, Harper (1993)
“If Im on skates, I feel at home no matter what Im doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just because I was on skates. When Im not on skates, though, I feel very strange.”
—Dorothy Hamill (b. 1956)