A Quote by Pearl Bailey
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
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Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
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Nobody wants to play bad football in a game; everybody wants to win, and every player wants to show how good he is. But, you know, sometimes you simply have a game where nothing is happening.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Everybody wants a seat at the table, but nobody wants to give up space.
Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
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Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
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