Famous quotes containing the word wanted:
“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps most of all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)
“The fates are not quite obdurate;
They have a grim, sardonic way
Of granting them who supplicate
The thing they wanted yesterday.”
—Roselle Mercier Montgomery (18741933)
“Ill never forget my fathers response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, If you do this, no man will ever want you.”
—Cassandra Dunn (b. c. 1931)
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