Quotes About Wants

Deluded or not, it's still a lucky way to live. Even though it's temporary. It may well be that the lower-ranked little kids at E.T.A. are proportionally happier than the higher-ranked kids, since we (who are mostly not small children) know it's more invigorating to want than to have, it seems. Though maybe this is just the inverse of the same delusion.

And here's a cliché' that's earned its status as a cliché': whether you're free or locked up depends, all and only, on what you want. What you have matters about as much as the color of your sky. Or your bars.

People go fishing because of needs. People swim because of wants. People fish and swim even in unpredictable waters for contentment.

The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.

If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

But we all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

Whatever motive a man or a set of men may have for making annexation of property or territory, it is very easy to assert, but much less easy to disprove, that it is necessary for the wants of the country.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

The promise of American opportunity and prosperity means something different to each of us. What we each envision varies in terms of wants and needs, and aspirations can change over time. But we all want to see our children have more opportunities than we had.

In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.

The customer wants what the customer wants - when they want it, where they want it, and how they want it. And if you want to build a big business, and you want to be meaningful to a big, broad group of customers, you need to think about how you're going to meet them in the various places where they might expect to see you.

And him?" I looked toward the revived guard. Freddy said, "Wants a lawyer like a baby wants a bottle.

Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want.

J?dom?, ka tas visp?r ir dabas likums. Katram cilv?kam ir tas, ko vi?š negrib, toties citiem ir tas, p?c k? vi?š ilgojas.

But who wants to be foretold the weather?  It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. 

Par che a questo mondo la regola sia questa. Ogni persona ha ciò che non vuole, e ciò che vorrebbe l'hanno gli altri.

he had always located the essential truth of his life in his wants and compulsions.

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.

In fact, we now meet most of our needs, wants, and desires through money. We buy everything from hope to happiness. We no longer live life. We consume it.

Successful entrepreneurship begins and ends with customer wants and needs, not what you want and need.

Covet, v. This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.