Famous Quotes & Sayings

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Chris Isaak

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

George W. Bush

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

Bernard Williams

In my experience of shame, the other sees all of me and all through me, even if the occasion of shame is on my surface -- for instance, in my appearance; and the expression of shame, in general, as well as in the particular form of it that is embarrassment, is not just the desire to hide, or to hide my face, but the desire to disappear, not to be there. It is not even the wish, as people say, to sink through the floor, but rather the wish that the space occupied by me should be instantaneously empty. With guilt it is not like this. I am more dominated by the thought that even if I disappeared, it would come with me.

Pliny the Elder

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Philip Yancey

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Pope Francis

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Katey Sagal

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

Kate Winslet

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that,

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.

Stonewall Jackson

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Storm Jameson

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

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.

Quintilian

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Tennessee Williams

All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

Richard Krajicek

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

Melanie Lynskey

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Michel de Montaigne

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Michel de Montaigne

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

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)

Frank B. Kellogg

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

Philip Sidney

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

Philip Guston

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else...

John Vanbrugh

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

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.