Part One, chapter 5, page 27
Why Government Doesn't Work (1995)
“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”
Source: The Most Dangerous Thing
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Laura Lippman 5
Detective fiction writer 1959Related quotes
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
Variant: Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are
As quoted in The Federal Career Service: A Look Ahead (1954)
1950s
Variant: Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.
Patheos, Anti-theist Answers to Christian Questions http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2015/11/22/anti-theist-answers-to-christian-questions/ (November 22, 2015)
Source: How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
“Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.”
Source: The Illustrated Man