Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

Rumer Godden

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

Robert Southey

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

Wallace Stevens

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Vivek Wadhwa

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Willa Cather

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Willa Cather

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

Wayne Dyer

Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become.

Wayne Dyer

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Wayne Dyer

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

Virginia Woolf

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

William Blake

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

William Blake

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

Wendy Whelan

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.

Walker Percy

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Salvador Dali

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Salvador Dali

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Salman Rushdie

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

William Cobbett

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

William Congreve

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Wayne Dyer

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.

Wayne Dyer

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Stephen Colbert

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Thomas Hobbes

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Thomas Hobbes

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Thomas Kretschmann

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Thomas Jefferson

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.