#wanting

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#christianity #difficult #found #tried #wanting

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. ↗

— Julian Clary

#get #motivation #pathetic #really #revenge

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#beat #certain #doing #exchange #exist

It's fun to see a lot of the crowd become embarrassed. You're kind of watching them almost wanting to not watch the screen, but they have to because it's so compelling! ↗

— Will Friedle

#because #become #compelling #crowd #embarrassed

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. ↗

— Maya Lin

#architecture #art #aware #become #began

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do. ↗

— Brian May

#eccentric #everybody #i #looking #out

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#because #everton #family #football #football team

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#issues #life #my life #people #sensitive

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#fred #had #i #know #laced