Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Alan Watts

For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Alan Moore

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Alan Chambers

My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

Cesare Pavese

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Carole King

Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Caitlin Thomas

when the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do ...

Cal Ripken, Jr.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

C. S. Forester

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Catherine the Great

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Chinua Achebe

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Chiang Kai-shek

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Manson

If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.

Charles M. Schulz

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

Charles Kuralt

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

We're going to make an effort to communicate with Tiger and several other players . . . and express our great desire for them come to Milwaukee.

Usually, it takes between 10 and 20 layers to get the desired coating,

We expressed a strong desire to keep plants open,

Bill O'Reilly

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

Bertrand Russell

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

C. S. Lewis

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

Ray Romano

We want to recognize that it is the end of the show without really saying it. But we'll satisfy the audience's desire for a little heart.