Wants Quotes

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

God wants to bless us where we are.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.

We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

Obama hasn't passed a budget in four years, he's a wuss. Obama has rejected the recommendation of his own Simpson-Bowles, on a budget package, he's a wuss. He wants to lead from behind, he's a wuss!

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.

It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.