Quotes with wants

Quotes 281 till 300 of 324.

  • Desiderius Erasmus This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Those who get their living by their daily labor... have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Josh Billings Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Joe Namath To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
    Joe Namath
    American football quarterback and actor (1943 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets co
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Bixby Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Betty Dodson We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • Susie Orbach We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bob Dylan Well, I try my best
    To be just like I am
    But everybody wants you
    To be just like them
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Stokely Carmichael What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Alain de Botton What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • William Dean Howells What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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