Quotes with wants

Quotes 161 till 180 of 324.

  • Alfred Marshall It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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  • Henry Fielding It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Aesop It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Anthony Holden It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bono It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bob Iger It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Keep on praying because the Father does listen. He loves our company, he wants us to endure in prayerfulness and he is eager to do whatever is best for us.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Buck Owens Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Lady Randolph Churchill Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
    Lady Randolph Churchill
    American-born British socialite, mother of Winston Churchill
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  • Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Anthony Weiner Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Jerry Gillies Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Albert Camus Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Groucho Marx Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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