Quotes on Want

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless deportment give them decent grace;_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed with all other requisites to please,_x000D_ _x000D_ To want the striking elegance of ease;_x000D_ _x000D_ Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill_x000D_ _x000D_ Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.

We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

The worst speak something good; if all want sense,_x000D_ _x000D_ God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.