Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

John Gardner

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Jonathan Edwards

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Henry Van Dyke

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

John Irving

We are formed by what we desire

John Hodgman

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

Joe Hill

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

Francois Fenelon

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

Francois Fenelon

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

Francois Fenelon

No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

Marcus Garvey

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

James Surowiecki

The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

James Macdonald

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

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.

George MacDonald

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

George MacDonald

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

Emily Ratajkowski

Sex is normal. Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

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.

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.