Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Fromm

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

Chanakya

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Ava Gardner

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Brad Meltzer

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

C. S. Lewis

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Alice Munro

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Alexander Pope

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!

Christopher Meloni

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

Zdenko Tomanovic

Milosevic pointed out that during the last five years he had never used any such antibiotics, especially since he had never had leprosy or tuberculosis or any kind of infectious disease except for the flu.

Allen Johnson

My disease is shared by many Americans, and you either understand it or you don't,

David Reuben

Now there are more venereal diseases than there are signs of the zodiac.

John Green

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

Laila Ali

I can't really do that. I can't share a lot of things with him. I feel like the disease is progressing.

Sean Morrison

I can't sit here and tell you today what diseases we're going to treat as a result of this research. All I can tell you is that we're never going to get to that point unless we can do the research.

Steven Nissen

Getting rid of that plaque is a fundamental step in stopping this disease.

Paul Jacob

Frankly, the experience is you can't trust a politician. They drink the water in Washington, and the disease sets in.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

Benjamin Cardozo

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Bill Vaughan

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.