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Quotes about Want

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.
— Victor Hugo
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.
— Euripides
Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
— Confucius
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
— Charles Spurgeon
God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.
— Julian of Norwich
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
— Samuel Johnson
Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
— Steve Jobs
O imagination, go away, I intreat thee by the gods, as thou didst come, for I want thee not. But thou art come according to thy old fashion. I am not angry with thee: only go away.
— Marcus Aurelius
Help is what they offer but gratitude is what they want, they roll around in it like cats in the catnip.
— Margaret Atwood
A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
— Margaret Atwood