Quotes
Quotes about Want
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsley nor bomb poppies nor purchase antipeople papers. They plant papayas, and peppers. Their pulpit is the popular* not the papal but poplars. * not in the sense of ephemeral fame but what the people want.
It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost.
Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.
But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives; And partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want--
