Quotes on Want

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that's my stock. That's how I want my kids to be too.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

I made a list of things I have_x000D_ to remember and a list_x000D_ of things I want to forget,_x000D_ but I see they are the same list.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

We go from birth to death. Three out of ten follow life. Three out of ten follow death. People who rush from birth to death are also three out of ten. Why is that so? Because they want to make too much of life.

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.