Quotes About Wants

It is possible to satisfy your need. It is impossible to satisfy your greed.

The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it.

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.

No," Tessa said, "you've got it exactly backwards. People don't know what they want, not before they see it. Every object of desire is a found object. Traditionally, anyway." Chevette

My good sir, is she your daughter then?' 'Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,' said the lord. 'She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.' 'Indeed,' said my lord Gawain, 'then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

But how do schools help matters?" "They give the peasant fresh wants.

Beauty is a responsibility like anything else, beautiful women have special lives like prime ministers but I don't want that.

Selfishness isn't characterized by knowing how you feel or what you want; selfishness is when you demand that other people always cater to your feelings, your wants, and your needs.

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue.

Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things—though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart—and at the ranch, I could see, we'd have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

Few experiences help our kids discover the distinction between needs and wants like the great outdoors.

If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do...

He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary.

Who's he going to outwit?" Sophia asked. "Relatives." Grandmother said. "Nasty relatives. They tell him what to do without asking him what he wants, and so there's nothing at all he really does want.

and bacon rind they've set in store / against our winter wants

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

Science gives man what he needs, but magic gives man what he wants.