#want

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ↗

— Idries Shah

#give #given #giving #really #take

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#husbands #maids #nothing #them #want

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish. ↗

— Shakira

#challenge #english #i #i am #major

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it. ↗

— Molly Shannon

#comedians #comedies #drama #go #hope

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#always #be the first #been #bowl #competitive

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#any #anymore #bridge #card #even

This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#any #apart #been #boy #difference

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. ↗

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

#against #aggression #allowed #any #categorically

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful. ↗

— Patti Smith

#ever #i #since #something #wanted

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#because #dangerous #exhausted #falls #find