Wants Quotes

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.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

I have a problem with Mitt Romney. And it's big problem - one that extends beyond our ideological differences. My big concern is that Mitt Romney wants to become president for no other reason than because there's a possibility he can win.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.