Quotes
Quotes about Want
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.
If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits."
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.
Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied; They rail, reviled; as often ends The contests of disputing friends.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
