Wants Quotes

6511 Wants quotes by 3896 unique authors

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything… — Harry Browne
As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the… — Billy Corgan
According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to… — Gottfried Leibniz
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and… — Johannes Kepler
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give… — Robert Frost
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know,… — Alfred North Whitehead
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique… — Lewis Thomas
... Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself ... — Muhammad Yunus
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point. — Abraham Lincoln
And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would… — Abraham Lincoln
Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you - don't do it. Say… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis -… — Rajneesh
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;… — Sri Chinmoy
True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind… — Sri Chinmoy
Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to… — George W. Bush
I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply… — Steven Weinberg
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no… — Goran Ivanisevic
There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side… — Mary Parker Follett
The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one… — Tim Field

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