Quotes with wanting

  • Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
  • Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
  • Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
  • Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.
  • You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.
  • Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • Walter Bagehot 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
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • William Penn Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Carmen Electra Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Carl Paladino Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bo Bice Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.
    Bo Bice
    American singer and musician (1975 - )
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  • Breckin Meyer For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.
    Breckin Meyer
    American actor, writer, producer, and drummer (1974 - )
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  • Rabbi H. Schachtel Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
    The Sign of the Four (1890)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • William Shakespeare He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Christopher Leach Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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  • Bruce Parry I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
    As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
    Bruce Parry
     
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  • Antonio Porchia I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • John Bright If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • John Ruskin In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Billy Corgan In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Barry Gibb It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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