Quotes with wants

Quotes 221 till 240 of 324.

  • Samuel Johnson Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anita Desai Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Brad Feld Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Al Green Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
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  • George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anatole France The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Sam Ewing The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
    Sam Ewing
    American baseball player (1949 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Toni Morrison The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Alan Dershowitz The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Berenice Bejo The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Machiavelli The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Socrates The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • James Baldwin The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Christian Morgenstern The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
    Christian Morgenstern
    German poet (1871 - 1914)
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  • Henry James The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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