The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. Nixon

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
Gerald R. Ford

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman Melville

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
Carter G. Woodson

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

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

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Sophocles

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
Sam Levenson

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

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
Agatha Christie

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
Brian Clough

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Meryl Streep

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

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.
Rush Limbaugh