Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cruelty, attachment, desire and egotism - there is great hunger in these, like the raging torrent of a wild stream.

We feel like we have a little more desire than to win just one game. We want to show the world what we can do.

Duncan Fletcher

What is so pleasing is that these guys (newcomers) look as though they have really got a desire not just to play for England, but to do well for England.

William Blake

What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.

We give them the skill and equipment to perform but they have to come with the desire to serve and help protect their community.

Sadaharu Oh

We gave everything we had. We learned that our opponents' desire was higher than ours.

We found that there really was a desire for this kind of information. Our members want to know this information.

There is no serious intention towards political reform and what we are now seeing ... is evidence of the lack of any desire for political reform.

Nia Vardalos

I've understood the desire for a sequel, because I hear it all the time from my family and everyone I run into at a Starbucks.

It would be our strong desire that any dispute be settled through dialogue.

It was all about my desire to tell a story. I have a passion and I've had some hard knocks. Film is a great outlet to tell these stories.

I've been pleasantly surprised with their desire to learn. There's a great desire to learn with this bunch. They're hungry.

We just talked about our heart and our desire. We've been working for this since we were first-graders.

We feel there's a real desire to reach consensus, and we're working very well with House and Senate leadership.

Joseph Smith

The study demonstrates that low-income workers overwhelmingly desire to save, and many do, despite financial challenges.

Rebecca West

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

Saint Augustine

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Russell Brand

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Rhonda Britten

Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.

Rebecca Solnit

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...

Rhonda Byrne

I looked at what my talents and desires are and decided to start my own business. I like the advantage of being able to work at a slower pace if I need to do that and there is no one pressuring me to work faster

Paramahansa Yogananda

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Ovid

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Ovid

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Ovid

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Paul McCartney

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Meher Baba

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

Pierre Corneille

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Pierre Corneille

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Philippa Gregory

Some women attract desire. Others do not.