Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Lou Holtz

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Lou Holtz

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Maimonides

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

Maggie Gallagher

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Os Guinness

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Oliver Cromwell

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Emile M. Cioran

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Emile M. Cioran

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Ellen G. White

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Epictetus

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Epictetus

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

Epictetus

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

Epictetus

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Emily Greene Balch

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Henri Poincare

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Henri Nouwen

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Hjalmar Branting

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

Heston Blumenthal

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault

Hideo Kojima

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

Heraclitus

The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.

Heraclitus

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Henry Fielding

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

Helena Christensen

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

John Knowles

Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.