Wanting Quotes - page 3

What would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others. (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed. View quote
Peter Medawar
He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty. View quote
Michelle Trachtenberg
You will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining. View quote
George Washington
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain? View quote
Alan Lightman
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
It's the wanting to know that makes us matter. (Tom Stoppard)
All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it. View quote
Terry Eagleton
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. View quote
George Orwell
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. View quote
Albert Camus
Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?" I asked Mrs. Davis. "I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce. View quote
Donald Barthelme
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. View quote
Norman Lamm
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. View quote
John Steinbeck
They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. (Rumi)
Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time. View quote
Warren Buffett
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them. View quote
Aurangzeb
If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work. View quote
Louis Pasteur