Quotes About Want

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.

Dear YouTube: I think it's pretty safe to assume that we all want to 'Skip This Ad.'

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possesion of a pashon for fashon, must be in want of an audiance!

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, we all want to change the world... But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out.

marriage had always been her object; it was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

We don't just struggle with want; we struggle with blessing as well.

If you do happen to get a scholarship or get a few offers, don't choose the school that is the biggest school. Choose the one that's right for you. Go somewhere you're needed, not where you're wanted.

Americans don't want immigration. They don't want any more. Why can't we have a home? You see on 'National Geographic,' 'Oh, the indigenous people, they have a home.' Everyone else can have a home. We are the only people on Earth not allowed to have a home.

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

We both wanted money. Immense necessity! Universal want! Is there a civilised human being who does not feel for us? How insensible must that man be! Or how rich!

never mind about his genius, Mr. Pesca. We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

I admit defeat. I've been trying to present these events with a structure. I simply don't know how everything happened. Perhaps because I didn't pay proper attention, perhaps because it wasn't a narrative, but for whatever reasons, it doesn't want to be what I want to make it.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Dictionary he identifies 'what ills the scholar's life assail': 'Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail'. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate—the

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

Like all those who live in touch with nature and have known want, he was patient and could wait for hours, even days without growing restless or irritable

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

cannot avoid the temptation of wondering whether there is any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want.