Quotes About Want

What's great about theater and drama is it thrives on dialogue, and dialogue thrives on people with different points of view fighting for what they want.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

When people come to speak to me, whatever they say, I am struck by a kind of incandescence in them, the 'I' whose predicate can be 'love' or 'fear' or 'want,' and whose object can be 'someone' or 'nothing' and it won't really matter, because the loveliness is just in that presence, shaped around 'I' like a flame on a wick, emanating itself in grief and guilt and joy and whatever else.

Tant que tu ne veux pas ce dont tu n'as pas besoin, tout ira bien. Tant que tu ne veux pas ce que tu ne peux pas obtenir.

In fact, I cannot envisage any future time where I should want to do anything at all to capture your attention.

I viddied this sloppy glass of beer I had on the table in front of me and felt like all vomity within, so I went 'Aaaaah' and poured all the frothy vonny cal all over the floor. One of the starry ptitsas said: 'Waste not want not.' I said:

He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

I dread that it may be only a longing for annihilation. No person who has seen his own face plain can want to live longer.

You want to go out? he asks suddenly. I blink. As in a date? Yes. That's what a guy usually means when he asks that question.

Millionaire?' Mum looks totally confused. 'So… does he still want the quiche?

Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need

Cats are greedy, whereas I merely want all the scraps.

What's needed in this next campaign is to say, with clarity, why a pro-individual-liberty, small-government perspective is what most Americans really want.

God doesn't/can't give you what/all you merely want. Rather, he does give you what/all you really need like your daily bread.

Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

Any government which can promise you everything you want can also take away everything you have.

For the most part, I've been very, very blessed and been lucky to have great kids. We want to recruit great kids, good people. For the most part, we've done that.

What Americans want is more affordable health care.

Saying 'no' to very bad legislation is not wrong. In fact, when the American people tell you that they don't want the health care bill, you've got a responsibility to say no.

When a marriage for love is on the carpet; you must expect to waste time. But when it's a marriage of convenience between two people who have no whims and who know what they want; it's soon arranged.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.