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Quotes About Want

The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
~ Dada Vaswani
Want and sorrow are the gifts which folly earns for itself.
~ Schubert
I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.
~ Denis Leary
And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
For to combine the object with its superficial appearance is difficult, when it is not impossible. Indeed that is just the curse of this world of want and need, that everything must serve and slave for these; and therefore it is not so constituted that any noble and sublime effort, like the endeavour after light and truth, can prosper unhindered and exist for its own sake.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
All willing springs from lack, from deficiency, and thus from suffering.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
How many of the things I fear or dread are actually things that I want?
~ Augusten Burroughs
It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
~ Stephen King
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
the enemies of intellectual pluralism and free inquiry seem to be ten feet tall. Which is just how they want to seem.
~ Jonathan Rauch
When you need me, but do not want me then I must stay. But when you want me but no longer need me, I have to go
~ Emma Thompson
You're all wet and muddy!" Briarlight exclaimed. Yeah, and claws are sharp! Anything else obvious you want to point out?
~ Erin Hunter
those words of old in their place of old end of part three and last present formulation at the end before the silence the panting without pause the animal in want of air the mouth murmuring them in the mud and the continuation of old when the panting stops ten words fifteen words a murmur to the mud
~ beckett samuel ii
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy
~ Benjamin Franklin
Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small and the want great.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
I'm a former insurance regulator. What companies really want and need is some clarity about what the rules are.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
Bayern could buy any No. 6 in the world, so that they want me is a great honour.
~ Joshua Kimmich
Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I want to have honours loaded on me.
~ Tony Harrison
I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
~ Zoe Wanamaker
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.
~ Richard Trumka
The best players want to play for the best clubs in Europe and appear in top competitions like the Champions League.
~ Clarence Seedorf
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Miss Todd, I want to dance with you in the worst way.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith