| "I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip." »Roger Zelazny |
| "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." »Rabbi H. Schachtel |
| "Winning isn't everything. wanting to is." »Catfish Hunter |
| "Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." »Vince Lombardi |
| "When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." »Kathleen A. Sutton |
| "Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want." »Geoffrey F. Albert |
| "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." »Dale Carnegie |
| "Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed." »Robert J. Sawyer |
| "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." »T. S. Eliot |
| "Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth." »Gustave Flaubert |
| "People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older." »Sydney Harris |
| "Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even." »Ann Landers |
| "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look,is waiting to be discovered, wanting you to take notice. Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person. Who knows what you may learn" »Neill MacRae |
| "But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write." »Sir Philip Sidney |
| "He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all." »William Shakespeare |
| "It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina." »George Stanley McGovern |
| "I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen." »Abd Er-Rahman III |
| "And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green |
| "That's the whole thing with the hog. It's you and 80 wild horses under your butt, just sitting on 10 square inches where the rubber meets the road. That hurricane gale wind whipping you in the face, leaning into a curve you can feel that gravity wanting to suck you down into it and what do you do Give it a little more gas. Pure centrifugal force. You can see yourself hurtling ass end over teakettle into oblivion." »Robin Green |
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