If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
Vladimir Putin

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
Martin Buber

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
Billy Sunday

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
Stanislaw Lec

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.
Pearl S. Buck

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
Gustave Flaubert

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.
Ezra Pound

Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.
George Halas

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
Tony Campolo

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
Tony Campolo

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
Jackie Collins

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Tori Amos

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.
Kid Rock

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
Chevy Chase

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
Maxwell Maltz

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
Benny Hinn