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Wants Quotes (page 623)

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. Adam Smith
Wendell Berry quote: "I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was..."
I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go. Wendell Berry
You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find. Suzanne Collins
Shel Silverstein quote: "If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,..."
If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it. Shel Silverstein
And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try. Emily Giffin
Marianne Dashwood looks at gray skies and sees blue. That's all very well, and it's not something you ever want entirely to lose. But you must lose a little of it; otherwise you're going to get wet. Emma Thompson
Federico Fellini quote: "Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know."
Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know. Federico Fellini
Paulo Coelho quote: "The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to..."
The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not. Paulo Coelho
I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me. Arundhati Roy
I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. Ray Bradbury
I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be. Frantz Fanon
Had I been brought to America a few years earlier, I might have written that in such and such a year my father emigrated, just as I would state what he did for a living, as a matter of family history. Happening when it did, the emigration became of the most vital importance to me personally. All the processes of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimatization, and development took place in my own soul. I felt the pang, the fear, the wonder, and the joy of it. I can never forget, for I... Mary Antin
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted..."
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control? Laurell K. Hamilton
Dudley had been accepted at Uncle Vernon's old private school, Smeltings...Harry, on the other hand, was going to Stonewall High, the local public high school. Dudley thought this was very funny. "They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry. "Want to come upstairs and practice?" "No, thanks," said Harry. "The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said. J. K. Rowling
The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. Douglas Adams

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