„Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.“

„It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it — The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.“

—  Steve Martin American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer 1945

„All your life, you’ll meet people that only want to break you down. Forget them, stand strong with the people who build you up.“

—  Марк Фишбах (Markiplier) 1989

„Someone who wants the best for you is what’s best for you.“

—  Ralph Smart

„The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.“

—  Harry Browne American politician and writer 1933 - 2006

„I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.“

—  Stephen Harper 22nd Prime Minister of Canada 1959

„A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.“

—  Tom Landry Coach of the Dallas Cowboys 1924 - 2000

„The biggest gaslight of all is when people say "I love you and I want you" while trying to change who you are into what they want you to be.“

—  Teal Swan American spiritual teacher 1984

„When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.“

—  Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930

„This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender…“

—  Banana Yoshimoto, libro The Lake

„If you want someone to tell you what to think…"

"You will never be short of people willing to do so.“

—  Frances Hardinge, libro Fly by Night

„You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.“

—  Brandon Sanderson, libro Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia

„And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.“

—  Deb Caletti American writer 1963

„You can live your life two ways: You can use your language to manipulate. You can use it as a tool to get what you want. But the problem with that is that it assumes you know what you want, and that you're right. And that's a problem, because there's lots of things you don't know, and if you get what you want you may find that (A.) You didn't really want it, and (B.) that you're not the person that started the journey towards that. That happens a lot to people, especially when they use their language in a manipulative way.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

„I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard.
I just want someone
that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.“

—  Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949

„They would give us these helicopter rides, and every time we'd get on, the drivers would say "now do you want to ride, or do you want to rrrride? On the helicopter! I'd be like "I want the ride… the first one… the boring one… the ride. I don't want the "rrrride"… I want the ride!“

—  Kathy Griffin American actress and comedian 1960

„I believe you have to start with a craft; you don’t just start with a dream. You’ve got to put a lot of work in. If you want to pursue acting, then you go to acting class. If you want to be a dancer, then you learn to dance, which is what I did. If you want to be a ventriloquist or join the circus … When you’re young, you start looking at what you want to do—not just who you want to be, but what you want to do. And I think the tenacity to say, “I’m going to perfect that,” is the beginning of a work ethic...“

—  Goldie Hawn American actress, film director, and producer. 1945

„If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough. “

—  Lucky Luciano Italian-American mobster 1897 - 1962

„It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.“

—  Sarah Dessen, libro The Truth About Forever

„Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,
The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;
Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snob
If I whisper: "Bus driver, I don't want your job."“

—  A. P. Herbert British politician 1890 - 1971