Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Moore

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Anouk Aimee

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Anouk Aimee

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

Ansel Adams

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

Anne Boleyn

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

Anne Beatts

I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!

Anne Bronte

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

Amy Carmichael

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

Annette Bening

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

Anne Sexton

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

Ambrose Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

Ambrose Bierce

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Alice Sebold

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

Abraham Lincoln

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

Abraham Lincoln

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

Anna Sui

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

Amy Poehler

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Allen Weinstein

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

Whoever desires the gain of the hereafter, We will give him more of that again; and whoever desires-- the gain of this world, We give him of it, and in the hereafter he has no portion.

Mark Regev

We've expressed a desire to help, and we're hopeful that it will be possible to help.

We are facing the second half of the season with the greatest desire to give to our fans and our followers triumphs and happiness.

This was not about our desire not to have him as part of our organization for a long, long time,

Charles Eastman

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Ariel Sharon

We desire a life living side-by-side, in understanding and peace. We have no desire to rule over you. We have no desire to run your affairs.

Jane Addams

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

Jane Austen

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

Jane Austen

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Janine Turner

My desire is to walk with God every day.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Jane Wagner

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

Therese of Lisieux

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.