"I think that what people always want..." - Quote by Taylor Swift
I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...
More by Taylor Swift
“The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.”
“I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.”
“Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.”
More on Desire
“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.”
“We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.”
“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.”
More on Human Nature
“I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.”
“That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.”
“Man's greatness is great in that he knows himself wretched. A tree does not know itself wretched. It is then being wretched to know oneself wretched; but it is being great to know that one is wretched.”