Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugh Grant

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

He's got all the physical attributes. He's got all of the desire. He's got everything going for him, except his size.

Hasim Rahman

He showed tremendous heart in his fight with Lennox Lewis, and he did show desire, ... He proved he was a champion. I really respect this man. I really feel like he can hurt me if I come with any less than my A-plus game.

Horace

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Horace

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Cameron Russell

If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life, O Krishna?

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.

Jay Asher

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

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?

It just goes to show, if you have the drive and the desire, we have the resources here at the University.

It says a lot about David's desire that he was been able to place sixth for being so banged up.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

Francis Quarles

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.

Francis Quarles

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Ian Fleming

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

If consumers' desire for large SUVs does not snap back, GM will be launching its new full size SUVs into an unwelcoming market.

Henry David Thoreau

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Christiane Amanpour

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.