“To build enormous palaces, to conquer or to mimic nature, to ransack the world in order to gratify the passions of a man, is not thought of, but to add a few yards of land to your field, to plant an orchard, or enlarge a dwelling, to always be making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants without effort and almost without cost. These are small objects, but the soul clings to them; it dwells upon them closely and day by day, till they at last shut out the rest of the world and sometimes intervene between itself and heaven.” MenWorldWantSoulSometimesLastsOrderPassionHeavenEffortTroubleLandFieldsObjectsCostComfortableAddPlantEnvironmentalEnormousConquerSustainabilitySmallestYardsPalacesConvenientDwellingOrchardSmall Objects Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.” PeopleKnowsWantAnswersKnow HowCostPresses Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.” WantMatterDoneAudienceCostNo Matter WhatSatisfyingGet It Done Author:Sam Worthington
“Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.” WorldWantLooksSaidHardDoneCareFightingSidesClassMiddleEasierCostDemandPressureDebtCoreTricksEnormousIncomeHealth CareOfficialsRisingMiddle ClassExpensesTrapsRelianceReducingBleedingMortgageStagnantPublic OfficialsRethinkingHealth Care CostsFighting BackEasier Said Than Done Author:Elizabeth Warren
“For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency union. Our currency has already pegged to the euro since 2002. We don't have an independent monetary policy. We are regulated by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, but we are not able to reap all the profits. Our businesses want to save the transaction costs.” WantAbleEconomyPolicyCostAbsolutesIndependentTradeUnionsProfitZoneCurrencyReapMonetaryTransactionsEuroCentral BanksMonetary PolicyFrankfurt Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.” WantShouldViolenceCostBitesSnakesBite Me Book:All Men Are Brothers Source: All Men Are Brothers
“I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.” WayWantDifferencesPayIssuesCostGenderCost Of LivingGender DifferencesPocketbooks Author:Elizabeth Warren
“When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.” IfsThinkingWorldWantRealSuccessfulCostConcernedCardsBeing SuccessfulReal WorldPlaying Cards Author:Daniel Negreanu
“What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government.” PeopleWayWantMeanDoeGovernmentPainPoliticalPoliticsCuttingCitizensInvolvedRepublicanCostTaxesDemocratAverageSpendingTax CutsGovernment SpendingSpending Less Author:Theodore J. Forstmann
“Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope.” WantGivingMeanLandPossibilityHugeCostLowsIndiaInnovationEaseScopeManufacturingManpowerMake In India Author:Narendra Modi
“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” MenWantRealValuesBusinessTroubleHe ManCostAcquireToil Author:Adam Smith
“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” MenWantMeanPersonsRealUseValuesTroubleHe ManCostEqualCommandAcquireLabourQuantityCommodityToil Book:The Wealth of Nations Source: The Wealth of Nations
“I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.” ThinkingWantAgeHateCostI HateCurseCynicism Author:Paul Auster
“I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.” WayWantGivingWritingHumansI CanEnoughStoriesMy OwnSecretMoralAirCostCuriosityLove StoryDataInfrastructureScratchesThin Air Author:James Ellroy
“I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.” PeopleWantCostCharityEmpowering Author:Russell Simmons
“If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.” IfsThinkingWantLooksHelpingOpportunityGrowthTechnologyCostInnovationDown AndStableCarbonCoal Author:Gina McCarthy
“I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.” WantGivingTryingAudienceCost Author:Ruba Nadda
“If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.” IfsWantHouseBloodPaintingHorrorCostSixWideInchesBrushesWristsBucketsDip Author:Bruce Campbell
“Never mind that the new Visitors Center in Washington DC cost the taxpayers $621 million. Oh and that was ONLY $550 million more than the project was originally supposed to cost. Not to mention the fact that it was supposed to open three years ago .. but it was a government operation. What do you expect? I definitely want to put these people in charge of my healthcare and my retirement plan.” PeopleWantYearsMindFactsGovernmentThreeMillionsPlansCostProjectsYears AgoOperationsRetirementThree YearsHealthcareTaxpayersVisitorsWashington Dc Author:Neal Boortz
“Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.” PeopleWantGovernmentCostNotionAttractivePetRestriction Author:Thomas Sowell
“I want to see everyone contribute to the overall costs of the system, and with their entire earnings. I'm convinced that an objective discussion will reveal that the differences between the parties, which have been greatly exaggerated in some quarters, aren't that significant after all.” WantHas BeensDifferencesPartyCostConvincedSignificantObjectivesDiscussionQuartersEarningExaggerated Author:Angela Merkel
“[Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor.” PeopleWantBelieveCountryInterestMilitaryPositionCostFlowWestIncludingSyriaRefugeePutinNegotiatingFleeingAssad Author:Garry Kasparov
“If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsMayRealityFilmFightingGivenVisionMillionsIndustryCostConsequenceFilm Industry Author:Cliff Martinez
“The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.” WantMeanHelpingGoalTechnologyExampleIndustryCostProveLowsCustomersVehicleElectricVolumeCarbonEmissionsTeslaCarbon EmissionsAuto IndustryElectric Vehicles Author:Elon Musk
“Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly.” PeopleWantTryingCoursesInterestPayMistakeImagineHugeCostSixHighestStrategyRateExpensiveLots Of MoneyLoanInterest Rate Author:Dan Ariely
“If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.” IfsWayWantShouldMindDoubtCostMessagesDevilRelevanceGood Sense Author:J. I. Packer
“Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need....Government has a role, and an important role. Yet, too much government crowds out initiative and hard work, private charity and the private economy....Government should be active, but limited; engaged, but not overbearing.” WantNeedsShouldYearsImportantHardSeemsGovernmentSidesRolesEconomyToo MuchHard WorkCostArgumentTiredCharityCrowdsActiveDebateBudgetsEngagedInitiativeOverbearing Author:George W. Bush
“None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.” KnowsWantMadeBigsCareFilmTurnsDealsHalfMillionsRiskCostWasteTwentiesDollarsProfitBudgetsThirtyMillion DollarsNo One Cares Author:Clint Eastwood
“A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.” IfsWantStatesEconomyRiskAmountCostProfitAdvertisingRelyInitiativeEntrepreneurial Author:Noam Chomsky
“I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.” IfsWantFirstsKindChildrenI CanLightAgeSoundSpaceCenturyReaderCostSafeChaosOneselfExcuseLoyaltyDietsInsultHostGlancesAlasWombCosmeticsAsylumsEnchantmentDividingSafe And Sound Author:Jean Cocteau
“You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.” WantLooksRealGuyHouseCareersMillionsCostHollywoodTrackEstatesSectionsCounting Author:Chris Rock
“If I'm shooting actually a live-action movie and I feel like I can get the shots that I need with the existing 3D cameras, then I see there is no reason to not use those-to not shoot it in 3D. But there are limitations to the 3D cameras in terms of the amount of them, in terms of the size of them, in terms of where you can actually shoot them. There are definitely limitations so you have to weigh the costs. And you have to weigh also what ultimately what creatively you want to get.” IfsWantNeedsFeelsI CanReasonUseActionTermAmountCostShotsCamerasSizeLimitationShootingNo ReasonAction Movie Author:Neal H. Moritz
“The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs, pushed down wages for American workers and led to the decline of our middle class. We want American companies to create decent-paying jobs in America, not just low-wage countries like Vietnam, Malaysia or China. The TPP must be defeated.” WantCountryJobsAmericaCompanyClassMillionsMiddlePolicyCostLowsTradeSeriesWorkersChinaCorporateDecentMiddle ClassAgreementVietnamDeclineDefeatedWagesMalaysiaAmerican WorkersJobs In America Author:Bernie Sanders
“I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.” IfsWantFirstsBelieveSometimesValuesI BelieveGreaterCostTrustedBetrayedBeing Betrayed Author:Mark Leslie
“When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.” PeopleWantNeedsFirstsSaidEndsProblemFilmCertainCan DoTalkingMillionsFrontsAmountCostMoonProveStartingBudgetsFeaturesConvinceMore MoneyLots Of MoneyConvincingSaying NoFinancing Author:Duncan Jones
“When a sculptor creates a sculpture, a writer writes a novel, or a painter paints a motif on a canvas, he needs talent and expertise. But to be successful in his endeavor, he also needs to have the passionate feeling that he wants, at all costs, to create a work of art which, in his head, constantly demands to be accomplished. The same also applies to developing board games or card games.” WantNeedsWritingArtFeelingsGamesNovelSuccessfulTalentCostDemandPaintPassionatePainterCardsDevelopingBoardsAccomplishedBeing SuccessfulWorks Of ArtEndeavorCanvasSculptureExpertiseSculptorsMotifsBoard Games Author:Klaus Teuber
“I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.” WantWould BeHellCostPagesDefinitionsEditorsManuscripts Author:Dean Koontz
“When you go to that other country you realize that in France and in England, you don't ask somebody what they do for a living when you meet someone. A lot of the obvious things, the shortcuts we take in America - in America you can talk about money all you want. You can ask how much they make, rent they pay, how much their house costs and how much their car costs, and they'll feel comfortable telling you. But it's scandalous to ask anyone in England or France a question like that.” WantFeelsCountryAmericaAsksHouseRealizingPayCarCostComfortableEnglandObviousFranceOther CountriesShortcutsScandalousObvious Things Author:David Sedaris
“I understand shipping - you have to expect to pay for the stamps or for the freight company - but what's this handling they always have? How much does handling cost, anyway? I don't want a lot of people handling something I'm going to buy before I get it. How much would it cost if you didn't handle it before you sent it to me?” PeopleIfsWantDoePayCompanyCostHandleStampsShipping Author:Andy Rooney
“One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the actual cost of government is that they fear if the people had a discussion about what government costs, the true cost of taxes, that they might not want as much government as they are presently getting.” PeopleIfsWantReasonGovernmentMightCostTaxesNervousDiscussion Author:Grover Norquist
“The three auto companies in the United States, they're all scrambling to come up with a plan, some way to reinvent themselves. Well this week Ford did its part. Ford unveiled a new hybrid, the Ford Fusion, which will get almost 40 miles to the gallon. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, and when asked how much it would cost, a spokesman for Ford said, '$25 billion.' They just want that money; they don't care. That's without mud flaps.” WayWantWellsSaidStatesCareThreeUnitedCompanyUnited StatesPlansWeekCostYeahCome UpDon't CareBillionsMilesMudHybridFusionGallons Author:Conan O'Brien
“I don't want to be surrounded by 'yes men'. I want people who'll disagree with me, even if it costs them their jobs.” PeopleIfsMenWantJobsCostDisagree Author:Samuel Goldwyn
“Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)” WayWantWritingI CanBookWholeStarsReaderCostLowsExpectationsPaidPostsJustifyEditorsReviewsNew WaysBlogs Author:Kate Christensen
“The Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, I want to improve it. I want to build on it, get the costs down, get prescription drug costs down. Senator Sanders wants us to start all over again. This was a major achievement of President [Barack] Obama, of our country. It is helping people right now.” PeopleWantCountryHelpingCarePresidentRepublicanRight NowCostDrugAchievementMajorsOur CountryBarackSenatorsWant UHelping PeopleAffordablePrescriptionsPresident Barack ObamaPrescription DrugsAffordable Care Act Author:Hillary Clinton
“One of the things we find when we talk to people that attend these congregations, they all have social cost to it. People want to know why they're doing that. Sometimes they're questions about selling out on their race or "Are we not good enough that you have to go to this kind of congregation and not ours?" So there are costs to it, and I think they're a little bit higher in the South because of its history.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesSometimesEnoughSocialBitsRaceHigherCostLittle BitSouthSellingGood EnoughNot Good EnoughCongregationSelling Out Author:Michael Emerson
“I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.” WantFeelsTryingLittlesImportantBitsLike YouCostLittle BitWho I AmBeing YourselfProtectedRobots Author:Serena Williams
“If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."” IfsWantMindMightJobsUsedTurnsGrowthCan DoObjectsInvolvedCostDrugCreatingAspectMachinesSafetyVery GoodIllObjectivesConsumersScareMilkCowsOrganismsAddictGood JobEcosystemsHormonesDrug AddictHealth And SafetyMonocultureBovineGrowth Hormones Author:Vandana Shiva
“As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.” IfsWantTryingSaidJobsStuffDealsTalkingKingsCostToughInvestmentHungerLunchLutherIntegratingDimes Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Working to get the Affordable Care Act to cover everybody and get the cost down will work better and every analyst who's looked at what I want to do compared to Senator [Bernie] Sanders has reached the same conclusion.” WantCareCostConclusionSenatorsAffordableAnalystsAffordable Care Act Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.” IfsWantCan DoCostLowsWhat You Want Author:Sarah Silverman