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Quotes About Want

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.
~ Pope Clement I
All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.
~ David Eddings
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
~ Ray Romano
I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.
~ Robert Creeley
I love so much you see, you're even in my dreams I can hear baby, I can hear you calling me I'm so in love with you, all I ever want to do is Thank you baby, thank you baby.
~ Alton Ellis
Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.
~ Marlon Brando
Rock stars against drugs--that's what we want, isn't it? Government-approved rock-n-roll? Woo! We're partying now!
~ Bill Hicks
So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.
~ Steve Almond
The American people overwhelmingly want to see smart policy that secures our families, our borders, and our economy.
~ Luis Gutierrez
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.
~ Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
There was a pity in her eyes which gave me some comfort, though not much; a man whose soul is crying out for love does not want pity.
~ Bram Stoker
desires," I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There's an element of passion in the experience of desire
~ Calvin D. Banyan
Such extravagance! Gerhardt complained to Jennie. Such waste! No good can come of anything like that, It will mean want one of these days.
~ Theodore Dreiser
I don't have anything against Jon Jones. We are fighters and we do whatever we want with our lives.
~ Glover Teixeira
I'm like a big kid. But it's not like a called myself the Instagram King. I put up what people want to see and that just happened.
~ Dan Bilzerian
When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.
~ Frank Peretti
The beautiful thing about being independent and having my own label is I can say whatever the hell I want.
~ Tech N9ne
People in Hell want ice water.
~ Karen Marie Moning
banning anything leads to organized crime. People will always find a way to get what they want, and there will always be criminals willing to provide it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A hard grimace set on Abitha's face. "If it is a witch they want," she hissed, "then a witch they shall have.
~ Brom
Thinking, thinking—a wheel I cannot stop; pure want of sleep it is that turns it.
~ Herman Melville