Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

Murray Rothbard

On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

Myles Munroe

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

Myles Munroe

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

Moliere

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

Milton Friedman

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

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.

William Shakespeare

Hereafter in a better world than this,I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

Johnny Mathis

Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger.

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.

Guillermo del Toro

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

George Herbert

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Friedrich Nietzsche

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Jerry Bridges

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

Giacomo Leopardi

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

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.