Quotes About Wants

The first value of money was clearly the value which the goods used as money possessed (thanks to their suitability for satisfying human wants in other ways) at the moment when they were first used as common media of exchange.

Love can sometimes rise up like a desperate cry from a neglected part of oneself which takes a long view but which is submerged by the presence of strident wants.

see, hear, etc ………… (senses) I interpret …………… (mind, thinking) I feel …………… (emotions) I want …………… (desires)

Mars and Venus? Nope. The only problem between the genders is that we each have the others needs and wants backwards. Men want to be needed, and women need to be wanted. Not the other way around. It's that simple!

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become intelligence.

As you acknowledge desire or wanting, you can begin to see that your mind acts a little like a child at Disneyland: "I want that candy and I want to go on that ride and I want that stuffed toy.

El proceso analítico es cuando el yo decide si quiere aquello que desea.

it is not the "I" that has desires, it is desire that forms and sustains the "I".

The truth is always the same ... and the wants of the human heart are not widely different.

It is normal to be curious. The only shame is if all the musts and shoulds drown out the wants that we hear inside ourselves.

My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture.

Who wants peace? Santa asked. Ignatius got a sign up in front the house about peace. I mighta known, Santa said angrily. First that boy wants a king, now he wants peace. I'm telling you, Irene. For your own good. That boy's gotta be put away.

The process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter.