Wanted

Famous quotes containing the word wanted:

““Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of service to them.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“They were steps for me, and I climbed up over them—to do so I needed to go on past them. But they supposed I wanted to settle down on them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)