Famous Quotes & Sayings

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Rene Descartes

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

George Boole

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.

George Bernard Shaw

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

George Bernard Shaw

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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.

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.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Chris Isaak

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

George W. Bush

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

Fernando Pessoa

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

Fay Weldon

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Ezra Taft Benson

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

Francis Fukuyama

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

Francis Beaumont

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

Francis Beaumont

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Francis Crick

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Francis Chan

Do you want to see God more than you desire security?

Francis Chan

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

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.

I'm just glad to get out of here with a win. I think it's easier to play with MLS teams than play with these teams because of their desire and how they play. They're looking for that one chance. It would be nice to go out and put them away after 20 minutes, but it's never going to be like that.

Ernest Holmes

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There is a supply for every demand.