Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

Franz Kafka

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Eric Clapton

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Caitlin is a girl who has got such a remarkable inner drive that she has the desire to win every time she steps up on the block. She always wants to better her time.

Hannah More

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

hidden desires in the soul; unleashed by the moonlight

He still has the passion and the desire to play, and he's going to help this hockey team.

He's just an intense competitor. He's got a desire to do well, and he really works at it.

HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Martin Luther

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

Martin Luther

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

Nicole Kidman

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

Nick Bantock

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Michael Pollan

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Seth Godin

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Seth Godin

You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

Ravi Zacharias

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Slavoj Zizek

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Marie de France

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

Theodore Roethke

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

Margaret Mitchell

She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Margaret Drabble

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

Margaret Fuller

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

Michael Foley

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.