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Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

I don't care how people read their comics, I want them to read comics. I don't care if they read them on an iPad or a phone or in store, I just want them to read comics.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.

The best feedback is what we don't want to hear.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk

As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.

I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.