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Quotes About Want

Part of the responsibility of being a modern storyteller is understanding modern audiences and trusting what they can handle. It's not just settling into what we think they want.
~ Colman Domingo
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
~ Roseanne Barr
God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.
~ C. S. Lewis
He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.
~ Christopher Moore
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
~ John Maynard Keynes
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
~ Plutarch
The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
~ Marianne Moore
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.
~ Lady Gaga
It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.
~ John Amos
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
~ Friedrich Schiller
If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
~ Brian Williams
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
~ Barbara Jordan
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.
~ Euripides
It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.
~ Jack White
It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.
~ John Ruskin
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
~ Les Baxter
In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.
~ Michel de Montaigne
In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.
~ Mitch Albom
Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
~ Ogden Nash
How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?
~ Raul Grijalva
I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.
~ Jason Mewes
People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.
~ Jim Sterne
The recipe for success . . . customers will get what they want, when they want it . . . you will see more revenue, greater brand loyalty, real relationships, and a competitive edge.
~ Martin Zwilling