Want Quotes - Page 372

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that work on a more mysterious level, that approach the truth by a more circuitous route.

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a second. If we want to discover generalizations about evolving systems, we will have to look at artificial ones.

I never wanted to be with someone who just hung around the house.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.