Quotes About Wants

All summer they'd been pushing me towards my freedom and now I wanted to claim it

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Pocas veces pensamos en lo que tenemos; pero siempre en lo que nos falta (Schopenhauer)

Man wants but little, nor that little long.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can." "That's

The least thing a private sector employer wants in his/her company's employees is often teamwork in them.

the luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.

Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

The problem with adolescents—from the parents' point of view—is that they have a child's power of self-control presiding over an adult's wants and urges.

In Tin's already jaded view, experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted, but Jorrie had always been more optimistic than him.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

You really have need of very little, but each of us must decide how much he wants.

The market wants to see you persist. It demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Where are we? (Jericho) Noir's happy place. It's where he brings the beings he wants to play with. (Asmodeus) Punish. (Jericho) You say ta-mah-to. I say to-mah-to. (Asmodeus)

My name is Gilan. The King wants to see you.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a movie around you, and I want it to be this.'

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others; though we who looked on think lightly of such premature despair, as if our vision of the future lightened the blind sufferer's present.

Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.