Quotes with wants

  • That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
  • My son's going to have a job, and if he wants to get a car when he gets his license, he's going to pay for it on his own like I did.
  • Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
  • I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
  • No one wants advice, only corroboration.
  • A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
  • A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
  • Even if you do everything a woman wants, it will not be enough. But of course, this is no reason for not doing it.
  • No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
  • He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Helen Rowland A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A forest bird never wants a cage.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bow Wow Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Cobbett It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Bob Dylan Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Max Weber Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Jonathan Swift The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Arthur Laffer When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Carolyn See 'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A bachelor is one who wants a wife, but is glad he hasn't got her.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Art Buchwald A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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