Wanting More Quotes

• It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

  Amy Poehler

  Desire, Matter, Left

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

  Stephen King

  Heartache, Recipes

  Stephen King (2001). “Dreamcatcher: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Desire, Disaster

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• Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

  Mitch Albom

  Beautiful, Missing, Doe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  Dale Carnegie

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

  Geneen Roth

  Good Times

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jun 13, 2012

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• Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

  Nick Harkaway

  Home, Clothes, People

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• Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.

  Tana French

  Home, Clothes, People

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• Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

  Frank A. Clark

  People, Economy

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• She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

  Edna O'Brien

  Love Is, Two, People

  Edna O'Brien (2011). “Saints and Sinners”, p.137, Faber & Faber

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• Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

  Carole King

  Desire, Want, Audience

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• I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

  Florence Welch

  Drama, Thinking, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

  Roger McGuinn

  Philosophy, Years, Castles

  Song: King of the Hill

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• Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

  Laozi

  Loss, Taoism

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• Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

  Amy Poehler

  Rude, Ego, Tables

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Sweet, Men, Yesterday

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.32, Tachyon Publications

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• Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think Im being too greedy.

  Inbee Park

  Winning, Thinking, Greedy

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• I had done 'Die Hard' and it was somebody's franchise. I actually just got done with the 'Hawaii Five-O' pilot and I was developing some things of my own. So 'Total Recall' one of those projects that I read wanting more not to like it.

  Len Wiseman

  Done, Hawaii, Pilots

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss 'Total Recall'". screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Actors, J Edgar Hoover

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

  Rihanna

  Love Is, Great Love, Feelings

  Song: S&M

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• You need to keep everyone wanting more. Every character has so much depth, and there was so much thought that went into it, but it would've taken away at some point from the main story, and everything I think kind of was woven together really beautifully, so that you cared about everyone, and everyone had their own story, but everything helped the main plotline.

  Ashley Greene

  Taken, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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• 'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable. Globally we are approaching the point when the only sustainable way forward is to want less. Indeed, the choice element may be removed from us and we will just have to have less. In the meantime we still have some choices about how to influence our future

  Don Johnston

  Future, Way Forward, Choices

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• The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 years ago. Those kinds of experiences are very much of the countryside of Bhutan, where people are truly happy in the sense of not creating and wanting more.

  Karan Bajaj

  Light, Bhutan, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Mean, Phones

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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