Famous Quotes & Sayings

Publilius Syrus

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Pierre Loti

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.

Oliver Goldsmith

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

Oliver Goldsmith

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Marcus Samuelsson

I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let reason govern desire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Margaret Thatcher

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom

Leonardo da Vinci

We should not desire the impossible.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Lea Thompson

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

Iris Murdoch

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

Giordano Bruno

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

J. M. Coetzee

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Kelsey Grammer

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

Julian Clary

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

Julian Casablancas

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

There seems to be more of an understanding of the historic opportunity that exists, ... We have a greater sense of optimism ... I have a sense that there is a desire to seize the moment.

There is that desire to go surf the waves by yourself, just you and nature and I will never do it again, never.

The morning inspires scholars to work and also those who desire wealth.

Rand Paul

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

Sheena Iyengar

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Michael Pollan

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Seth Godin

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Seth Godin

You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

Ravi Zacharias

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Slavoj Zizek

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Rajneesh

It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.