Quotes
Quotes about Want
Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."
You shall never want rope enough.
Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
What the devil did he want in that galley?
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
..the virtue of a man consists in managing the cityâs affairs capably, and so that he will help his friends and injure his foes while taking care to come to no harm himself. Or if you want a womanâs virtue, that is easily described. She must be a good housewife, careful with her stores and obedient to her husband.
On our earth we can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order to love.
The average reader does not want to get outside life, to view it detachedly and indifferently; he requires the illusion of being more deeply involved in it
God doesnât have to be what people want sheit to be.
Life is one big punishment, but, thank God, we don't have to bear more than we want.
I have done most of the things I wanted to do, even if I have not done them well
Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book
The characters of an art novel resist the structure which their creators try to impose on them; they want to go their own way. They do not even want the book to come to an end
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
I was kind, humble, industrious. I was a candidate for the heaven I had wantonly barred from myself
The novelist admits that he wants to give pleasure, while the poet and epic dramatists talk more about spiritual exaltation
If it be work that is wanted, then we had best get back to work
It is not wantonness I mind but only dullness
It stands to reason you've got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there's an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and war is for armies
We want peace and we want war. The workers want to be left in peace to wage war against the bosses
We don't want just war. We want a just war
The soul in hell is ... a soul at last aware that truth and beauty and goodness, as expressed in what we may call the personality of God, go on existing but quite beyond the hope of that soul's being able to get at them. The condemned soul knows what it wants, but it can't have what it wants. That's hell
People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know
