« All Want Quotes · Wendell Berry's Page
Want Quotes by Wendell Berry
- People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a…
- There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
- For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
- We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's…
- The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
- The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve…
- I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
- Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children,…
- If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in…
- The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have…
- Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
- You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In…
- To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a…
- Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for…
More Want Quotes
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach