He wanted the arrogant marine to know fear, and so he aimed above the head.

), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.

One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.

If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.

Welch wanted to know why.

But he still wanted to know why.

And you know you will always wonder all of your life whether it was because you wanted him so bad that you didn't get him, and you can feel nearly sorry enough to cry when you think of that other guy, the chump who begged you to marry him, the one with the plastered hair and the car he couldn't afford and the too-shiny shoes.

She wanted to know.

His son who did not know whether he wanted to be doctor, lawyer, merchant or chief.

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

* Gaudi wanted the people who lived in the flats to all know each other.

This was because parliament wanted to know who was deciding policies, as sometimes councillors ' signatures normally attached to resolutions were absent.

First stating " I'm sure they exist ", she later went on to say, chuckling, " Well, I'm a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist ", and finally: " You know, why isn't there a body?

Searle disagrees with this analysis and argues that " the study of the mind starts with such facts as that humans have beliefs, while thermostats, telephones, and adding machines don't ... what we wanted to know is what distinguishes the mind from thermostats and livers.

In 1987 he told Nine-O-One Network Magazine that he was " ashamed " of his promotion: " I wanted to be known as a guitarist and I know, too, that they give you titles like that in lieu of money.

* Horsewatching ( 1989 ) — subtitled " Why does a horse whinny and everything else you ever wanted to know "

Scott Miller of 3D Realms recalled that " with Duke 3D, unlike every shooter that came before, we wanted have sort of real life locations like a cinema theatre, you know, strip club, bookstores ..."

* 025. 431: The Dewey blog: Everything you always wanted to know about the Dewey Decimal Classification system but were afraid to ask ...

" We did not know that the Yugoslavs, under the pretext of ' defending ' your country against an attack from the Greek fascists, wanted to bring units of their army into the PRA Republic of Albania.

If one concept is defined by another, and the other is defined by the first, this is known as circular definition, somewhat similar to a circular reasoning: neither offers us any enlightenment about what we wanted to know.

In 1790 Fichte began to study the works of Kant, but this occurred initially because one of his students wanted to know about them.

* Everything you wanted to know about GM organisms — Provided by New Scientist.

He wanted to know everything.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.

if he wanted to leave me something let it be a trinket, nothing else.

He wanted to run, but he knew that if he did, he would be lost.

There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel.

the Mexicans not only refused to give them, but told the possemen if they wanted a fight they could have it.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

It wasn't as if she wanted much.

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

Let her call Crosson if she wanted to, let Crosson raise the roof or even can him, he didn't care.

And as for his pipe, if he wanted to smoke one, nobody would stop him.

Eugenia suspected her of deliberately overturning the heater because she was getting tired of dragging it back and forth and still wanted her own way, but Hope said if Grandma wouldn't have the heater nobody would have it, so Grandma had to give in.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

If a man was good, if he was going to be governor, you felt it and you wanted him to go on forever.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

Both of these processes were in most cases brief and formulaic, but they opened up in the possibility, if some citizen wanted to take some matter up, of a contest before a jury court.

This leaves those opposed to instrumental music in worship with the understanding that if God wanted instrumental music in New Testament worship, he would have commanded not just singing, but singing and playing like he did in the Old Testament.

At times he rose, at other times he shrank to the ground, he moved as if he wanted to play all the instruments himself and sing for the whole chorus.

When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.