Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gilbert

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

Elisabeth Shue

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Joel Osteen

God's desire is that we excel.

Lisa Bonet

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap

When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

Leo Hindery

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

Lauren Groff

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

Lady Gaga

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Pema Chodron

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Phyllis Bottome

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Phyllis Bottome

There is no thermometer for wants!

Rabindranath Tagore

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are some desires that are not desirable.

John Eldredge

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

John Dryden

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

John Lasseter

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

John Lancaster Spalding

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

John Baldessari

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Judith Martin

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Karel Reisz

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Joyce Meyer

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Katharine Hepburn

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Joseph Conrad

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

Joshua Harris

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

Kate Mosse

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Lawrence Welk

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

Juan Pablo Galavis

You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living.

Otto Weininger

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.