Wants Quotes

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.

Everybody wants to win.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.