Quotes
Quotes about Want
Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.
People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon.
Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.
She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap, And she will sing the song that pleaseth you And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your brood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team Begins his golden progress in the east.
Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power, Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up To want the rest.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States. Some even wanted him to be king, a thought that GW found ludicrous: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & fallacious!
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.
We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.
Abundance, like want, ruins many.
Make sure you want it enough.
