Quotes with wants

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  • Mark Twain A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alben W. Barkley A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office a Republican wants.
    Alben W. Barkley
    American lawyer and politician (1877 - 1956)
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  • Carol Shields A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Aeschylus A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Mason Brown A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Billy Eichner A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
    Billy Eichner
    American comedian, actor, and producer (1978 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Joseph Addison A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • David Gemmell A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.
    Legend (2011) 114
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Barbara Cartland A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Oscar Wilde A modern city is the exact opposite of what everyone wants.
    Letter naar Robert Ross (31-5-1897) in Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde, His life and confessions
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Dylan A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Graham A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • John Locke A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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