Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jean Rostand

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

Grimes

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

Giulio Andreotti

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

Hugh Grant

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Horace

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

Horace

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Guy deBord

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

He's like an extension of me out there. He has such a desire to play and win. He knows where everyone is on the field.

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.

Manny Acta

Everybody who had the desire to play prepared themselves for this tournament. Our guys saw enough pitches. They had enough at-bats. No excuses.

As soon as we put together our proposal, which will include what we are going to use the funds for, how we are going to repay it, the desired results and so on, we will go to the Ministry of Finance to have discussions on it. And once they sign off on it, we can then go to the financial institution.

Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do.

Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice./ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire./ But if it had to perish twice,/ I think I know enough of hate/ To say that for destruction ice/ Is also great/ And would suffice.