Quotes About Wants

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

[People] know what [Donald] Trump wants. They are fascinated with the idea, "Can Trump really get this?" Because Trump, there's nothing professional about him.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's cognition - they're already showing us signs that they want choice.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

[My fashion] line is inspired by real people, so I guess you could say it was listening to them, what they need, what they want and then translating that into coming from me.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

We have plenty of money to do everything we want to do, if we do it smart.

Regis Philbin's back in primetime, hosting 11 new episodes of 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.' But because of Obama's tax plan, it's been re-titled 'Who Wants To Win Just Under $250,000.'

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

Countries make policies for themselves. And Donald Trump wants to make - that's his policy.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.