Wanted

Famous quotes containing the word wanted:

“A merciless fate threw me into this maelstrom. I wanted much, I began much, but the gale of the world carried away me and my work.”
—Draza Mihajlovic (1893–1946)

“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)

“I had gone so long without loving
I hardly knew what I was thinking.

Where I hid my face, your touch, quick, merciful
Blindfolded me. A god breathed from my lips.
If that was illusion, I wanted it to last long;”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)