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Quotes About Want

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
~ Unknown
The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay
~ Peter L. Bernstein
Hello, my name is ees Lebkuchen Spice, and I vant to show you my coooooookies...
~ David Levithan
There is so much I need, but you can't get it for me.
~ David Maine
Roger Donald called from Little Brown to say that he would like to negotiate a two-book deal. To celebrate, I bought a denim shirt, and thought it amazing how quickly one's life can change. I never thought I'd want a denim shirt.
~ David Sedaris
Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.
~ Horatius Bonar
Finn was different. And he was different because she wanted him in her life in a way she hadn't wanted anyone for a very long time. Maybe ever.
~ Jill Shalvis
There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
~ Jodi Picoult
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~ George Chapman
el que desea, desea lo que no está seguro de poseer, lo que no existe al presente, lo que no posee, lo que no tiene, lo que le falta. Esto es, pues, desear y amar.
~ Plato
You think you're fighting for freedom. Freedom is dangerous. Give humankind freedom, and they will inevitably fall into chaos and war, religious zealotry and senseless violence. We have kept the peace. And we've done it by giving the people what they need, when they need it. Not what they want. Want is nothing but blind and selfish greed.
~ Rachel Caine
I don't know what it is about ye, Sassenach, that always makes me want to show off for ye. Get myself killed one of these days, tryin' to impress ye, I expect.
~ Diana Gabaldon
People want to see Ronda Rousey because she is an attraction.
~ Bayley
I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
~ Michael Bay
I've never been in a major competition. If you don't want to be there, you might as well leave now because it would be crazy to not want to be playing in Dublin at a Euros.
~ Matt Doherty
Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things.
~ Kevin Harvick
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
~ Daniel Craig
rule of four when it came to gift giving—something you want and something you need, something to wear and something to read.
~ Lori Wilde
T]he world springs out of a want, out of privation, but it is false speculation to make this privation an ontological being.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
It was an astonishing fantasy but it showed me what even apparently sensible people can believe if they really want to. I
~ John Cleese
It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion. -Marlin
~ Finding Nemo
Never confuse being loved and needed with being used and wanted.
~ Unknown
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
~ Akhenaton