“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist
All the Trouble in the World (1994)
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, book Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus (1990)
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“There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.”
David Adams Richards (1950) Canadian writer and politician
Source: Mercy Among the Children
“Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in "Disappearance of Literature" http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=TwaSpee.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=52&division=div1, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA194 <br class="br">Variant: A classic – something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
“Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless any more, everybody wants their fun.”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
Context: Now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless any more, everybody wants their fun. No more nuns, no more rabbis. No more good people, waiting to have their fun in the afterlife. The thing about the afterlife, it kept this life within bounds somehow, like the Russians. Now there's just Japan, and technology, and the profit motive, and getting all you can while you can.
“In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) English executioner
Executioner: Pierrepoint. Harrap 1974. p. 211.
“Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Rick Yune (1971) American actor
On favoring complicated characters in “Exclusive Interview With Rick Yune On The Man With The Iron Fists” https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/interview-rick-yune-man-iron-fists/ in We Got This Covered (2012)