Wanting Quotes

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There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best… — Ayn Rand
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what… — John Fowles
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports… — Martin Feldstein
You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin. — George Eliot
Nothing wrong with wanting to go home. — Stephon Marbury
Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next… — Jessica Valenti
I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play… — Joe Gibbs
Sometimes I think Iâ€™m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to… — Grace Coddington
I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one,… — Michel de Montaigne
I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor.… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de… — Arthur Koestler
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we canâ€™t… — Rumi
I like people wanting to know about me. — Juliana Hatfield
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. — Robert Breault
My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are… — Madonna Ciccone
People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said. — Shel Silverstein
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting. — Ben Jonson
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… — Desiderius Erasmus
We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles

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