Quotes
Quotes about Want
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.
I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree, If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule-- Stick close to your desks and never go to sea, And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.
Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!
I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God.
And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers. . . . . And laid my hand upon thy mane--as I do here.
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -Harry S Truman.
