In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.
I am always hungry and wanting to have sex. This is a fact.
Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.
Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.
Loss is not as bad as wanting more.
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.
Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.
[Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?
The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.
True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually governed by a desire to know, and a disposition to fulfill his will, and in endeavoring under the influence of these motives to 'live to his glory. ' Where these essential requisites are wanting, however amiable the character may be, however creditable and respectable among men, yet, as it possesses not the grand distinguishing essence, it must not be complimented with the name of Christianity.
When I did a sitcom and played a postman, I was brought to tears playing that postman, because I felt like one. I didn't grow up even wanting to be a post man. Now, I understand the meaning of the term "postal. " I was bored to tears. And what was funny was that the producer actually looked like a bug.
I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.
Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.