“ Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ”
- Sylvia Plath- Copy
“ Politicians never accuse you of greed for wanting to take other people's money only for wanting to keep your own money. ”
- Joseph Sobran- Copy
“ We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ”
- George Sheehan- Copy
“ There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that. ”
- Jennifer Love Hewitt- Copy
“ When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. ”
- Kathleen A. Sutton- Copy
“ It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be. ”
- Brigitte Bardot- Copy
“ That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile. ”
- Randy Newman- Copy
“ He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
“ It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in. ”
- Christopher Hampton- Copy
“ When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
“ I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. ”
- M.C. Escher- Copy
“ The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
“ Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
“ Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. ”
- Ann Landers- Copy
“ Real joy, which comes from loving to do good things without wanting to be repaid, is the reward that lasts forever. ”
- Emanuel Swedenborg- Copy
“ Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
“ Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
“ The state of life is most happy when superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
“ Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
“ A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
“ A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
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