Wanting Quotes - page 4

Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling. (Robertson Davies)
As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. View quote
Andy Warhol
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. View quote
Chaim Potok
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city. View quote
Jerry Pournelle
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. View quote
Molière
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need. View quote
John Milton
What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you. View quote
Alexander the Great
Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market. (Karl Marx)
Wanting to work is so rare a want that it should be encouraged. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates. View quote
John Locke
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. View quote
Tony Blair
She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear. View quote
Colum McCann
Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so. View quote
Randall Jarrell
People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog. View quote
Ann Patchett
He killed himself for wanting to live. View quote
Markus Zusak
July 24, 6:03 A. M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live. View quote
Markus Zusak
And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible... but interesting.... View quote
Meg Cabot
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings. (Pema Chodron)
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. View quote
Robert James Waller
It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life. View quote
Cindy Crawford
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. View quote
Stephan Pastis
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. View quote
Antonio Tabucchi