Quotes on Want

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

Children make you want to start life over.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

We know what unions have done for other people. We have seen it and we have studied and we have cherished the idea of unionism. We have seen the history and development of unions in this country and we tell the growers that we want nothing more, but that we want our own union and we are going to fight for it as long as it takes.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.

I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion not as a product of a pious dream, but as a concrete result of experience gained in the work of the Grameen Bank.

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.