Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Mario Cuomo

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

Marilyn Manson

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

Gertrude Stein

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Hayao Miyazaki

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Nate Lowman

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

Miles Franklin

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Milan Kundera

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Milarepa

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Marcel Proust

It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with out own life.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Jo Nesbo

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

The last two years in Seattle, it wasn't that fun. It wasn't a fun atmosphere. Everybody on the team was down. I didn't get to play much. With the Angels, I had a lot of fun. It's great to come back to a team that's just incredible as far as the makeup of this team and the desire and the drive. It's so refreshing.

Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Marcus Garvey

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

James Surowiecki

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

James Macdonald

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

Emile M. Cioran

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Emile M. Cioran

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Ellen G. White

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Epictetus

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Epictetus

Desire and happiness cannot live together.