#wants

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#book #deal #difference #eager #great

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#force #get #his #his way #i

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#asks #believed #never #poet #wants

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#freedom #his #lives #man #own

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ↗

— Samuel McChord Crothers

#capital #every #gets #keeps #letter

I've very proud to be mayor of our great city. It's a city with a heart and a soul. Chicago has a unique spirit. Our business community wants to give back. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#business #business community #chicago #city #community

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#gave #give #how #measure #money

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#because #contact #crowds #cult thing #days

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs! ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#give #going #i #needs #public

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#billionaires #estimates #i #i think #increase