Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them. Capitalism rests precisely on this endless expansion of wants. That is why, for all its success, it remains so unloved. It has given us wealth beyond measure, but has taken away the chief...

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

Man’s great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

God doesn’t hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

When does God make a want a need? When you think about it everyday and you journey that same path back to it, in order to experience what makes you feel special and alive.

Cathy, don’t look so defeated. She was only trying to put us downagain.Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that doesn’t mean we aredoomed. Let’s go forth tomorrow with no great expectations of findingperfection. Then, expecting only a small share of happiness, we won’tbe disappointed.”If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris,...

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.

I’m just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it’s actually not a terrible place to start.

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

You will know those who love you, when you are in need.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.

I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I’m on his errand.

I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

I’m tolerant of all religions… I don’t care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they’re wants.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

I don’t think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Happiness is there where wants and needs are small, but the desire to give is big.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don’t need a gun to do it.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

i felt like i was wanting you more than ever..I want to fall asleep with the pure sound of your heart beat, wrapped around your warm arms, feeling your skin against mine and wake up with the sound of your sweet voice and a beautiful smile on a saturday morning.I want to kiss you from...

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

People will say, ‘Just one picture please.’ That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say ‘No’ I feel guilty.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it’s probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it’s hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

Anybody that’s got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that’s how I’ve always looked at it.

Each of us has empty spaces in our heart that go through life being filled temporarily, by the various people we meet along the way. The trick is to find what needs to remain permanently filled in our soul and what needs to be filled occasionally through encounters.

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who wouldalways get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.

If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it!

My heart’s in stage. Making ‘Quadrophenia’ was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But ‘hurry up and wait’ is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

The Giants are looking for a trade but I don’t think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America’s sweetheart.

Marines are very good at fighting… And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he’ll have what he wants.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Take a person like Julia Roberts: she does what she wants.

If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don’t give a damn about Jim Bakker.