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Quotes About Wants

If we don't make aggressive markets and show a willingness to buy back bonds, investors aren't going to want to participate in our deals. In
~ Unknown
In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.
~ Julian Baggini
One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.
~ Marcel Proust
Funny thing. I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need.
~ John Steinbeck
In the struggle between the "needs" of the soul and the "wants" of the body, satisfy the soul first for it carries also the riches of the body.
~ Chinonye J. Chidolue
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
~ Fran Lebowitz
What, " asked Mr Croup, "do you want?""What, " asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?""Dead things, " suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.
~ Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
~ William Blake
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
~ H. L. Mencken
With time, Life becomes more about your needs instead of your wants...
~ Unknown
We consider it innocent to desire a thing and atrocious that the other person should desire it.
~ Marcel Proust
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Change begins with the person who wants the change.
~ Unknown
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires
~ Bertrand Russell
If the focus is delivering something the customer wants, you must move from primarily measuring outputs to primarily measuring outcomes.
~ Unknown
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
~ Mark Van Doren
ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...
~ Hiroko Sakai
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
~ Scott Weiland
the particular needs of ours that have been fulfilled
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
This message is for you," he told him. "The next time somebody wants to teach me a lesson, don't help.
~ Martha Wells
The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants.
~ Stephen King