Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Brendel

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

E. Stanley Jones

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

E. M. Forster

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Don Johnson

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Doris Lessing

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

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.

Alexander McCall Smith

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

A. S. Byatt

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

A. A. Milne

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Adrienne Rich

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Adela Florence Nicolson

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adam Smith

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

Abraham Cowley

Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.

Matt Brown

We stayed focused and didn't let up because our desire and energy to win our tournament was evident with our tenacious play,

Aleksandar Hemon

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

William Kidd

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

Beau Willimon

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Beth Moore

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Daniel Craig

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Slash

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

Max Lucado

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

Omar Sy

People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.

Alber Elbaz

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Albert Camus

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Annie Lennox

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Anna Wickham

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

D. H. Lawrence

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

Dan Brown

God's will is your deepest desires.

David Levithan

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

David A. Bednar

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.