The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
Alfred Hitchcock

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Blaise Pascal

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S. Truman

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
Angelina Jolie

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony

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

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew Carnegie

No one wants advice - only corroboration.
John Steinbeck

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
Meister Eckhart

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk