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Quotes About Want

Yes but, Arthur, that's ridiculous. People think that if you just say 'hallucinations' it explains anything you want it to explain and eventually whatever it is you can't understand will just go away.
~ Douglas Adams
Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing...
~ Douglas Coupland
Most guys with toupees overcompensate. They want too much hair. They end up piling it high, looking like a weird flower.
~ Burt Reynolds
I just want to have a normal life, like everyone else, you know?
~ Robyn
Some investors may grumble about entrepreneurs wanting 'unicorn valuations.' But let's be honest: most investors want them, too, and are supporting the massive capitalization of these companies.
~ Aileen Lee
All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism crouching on our shoulders like a stinking vulture, he said, we banish it, we smother it with optimism. We want, and our want kills doom.
~ Rachel Kushner
as I travel the city / hating poetry & my haircut & all the things I do not / want to do
~ Rachel Zucker
I don't care if it hurts I want to have control I want a perfect body I want a perfect soul I want you to notice when I'm not around You're so fucking special I wish I was special
~ Radiohead
Lo más sospechoso de las soluciones es que se las encuentra siempre que se quiere
~ Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
I don't think that running a fashion and lifestyle channel like Trendz is against RSS policy. But if it is, then it's up to them to do what they want.
~ Subhash Chandra
If I get an interesting script, I will surely do it. I just don't want to do cliche films.
~ Atif Aslam
I would be surprised if there weren't some owners who didn't want to get a deal done right now and get back to playing hockey.
~ Luke Richardson
Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.
~ Rebecca West
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.
~ Thomas Sprat
Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
~ Gloria Estefan
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.
~ William Beveridge
I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.
~ William Bronk
For Nature and Creature, without the Christ of God or the Divine Life in Union with it, is and can be nothing else but this mere Emptiness, Hunger, and Want of all that which can alone make it good and happy.
~ William Law
For the Life of the Creature, whilst only creaturely, and possessing nothing but itself, is Hell; that is, it is all Pain and Want and Distress. Now nothing, in the Nature of the Thing, can make the least Alteration in this creaturely Life, nothing can help it to be in Light and Love, in Peace and Goodness, but the Union of God with it, and the Life of God working in it, because nothing but God is Light, and Love, and heavenly Goodness.
~ William Law
If you can create a social movement that people want to join, they will bend their energies and ideas to you.
~ David Brooks
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.
~ Rowan Williams
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
~ Albert Camus
I hope I'll never get too old to want to take part in this event, and I don't think I will ever age that much.
~ Sam Snead
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
~ Alice James