Quotes
Quotes about Want
Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about.... If you want to get along, go along.
The still small voice is wanted.
Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".
I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.
Their wants but few, their wishes all confin'd.
Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants. [Lat., Multa petentibus Desunt multa; bene est cui deus obtulit Parca quod satis est manu.]
And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
Vegans need no pricegouging animal abusing Pfizer Vegans want no domestic battering accident causing Budweiser* Vegans need no services from corrupt Impermanente Kaiser.
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. -Confucius Analects.
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.
The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.
