Famous Quotes & Sayings

David A. Bednar

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

David O. McKay

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

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.

Alice Munro

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

Anne Hutchinson

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

Daisaku Ikeda

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Claude M. Bristol

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude Monet

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

Dante Alighieri

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Dante Alighieri

Without hope we live in desire.

Dante Alighieri

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Cormac McCarthy

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Cormac McCarthy

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Coventry Patmore

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Angela Carter

I desire therefore I exist.

Angela Carter

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

Amy Sedaris

I have no desire to carry a movie.

Aloe Blacc

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Andre Gide

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Angel Haze

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

Anais Nin

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Anne Carson

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Anne Carson

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Anne Carson

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

Brian Behlendorf

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.