Quotes
Quotes about Want
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
The American people want to preserve their American heritage, and they have the quaint belief that public lands belong to them as much as to the people of the state where the lands are located.
We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in governmentâhe promised Dad he'd go straight.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word-- From those who spoke her praise.
And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear! Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below, Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!
Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
