Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

Izabella Scorupco

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Georges Bataille

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

Georges Bataille

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.

Jean-Luc Godard

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

Jim Gaffigan

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

Jeff Fisher

External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

Jack W. Szostak

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

Christopher Jones

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

Francesca Annis

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Frantz Fanon

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

Franz Grillparzer

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Frank Iero

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

Francoise Sagan

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Francoise Sagan

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

George Herbert

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

Christiane Amanpour

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.