The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Am I not peaceful? We want to be free – completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.
Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
I didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.
I didn’t want Ulta to be thought of as the retailer for discounts. I wanted Ulta to be known as a beauty retailer.
I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be – not the women we think they should be.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read ‘Boneland.’
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Maya Angelou
Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn’t want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.
I don’t want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.
I didn’t want a big, dramatic wedding, but loads of drama happened anyway.
It’s clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.