Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliana Hatfield

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lord Byron

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Lou Holtz

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Lou Holtz

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Maimonides

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

Os Guinness

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Oliver Cromwell

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Emile M. Cioran

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Emile M. Cioran

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Ellen G. White

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Epictetus

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Epictetus

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

Epictetus

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

Epictetus

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Emily Greene Balch

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Elizabeth Smart

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

The desire to participate in the material growth being generated in the Indian mobile market should come as no surprise and has been well flagged by Vodafone,

William Blake

The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.

Laurence Sterne

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Karel Reisz

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Joyce Meyer

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Katharine Hepburn

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Joseph Conrad

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

Joshua Harris

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

Kate Mosse

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Lawrence Welk

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Lisa Bonet

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap

When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

Jonathan Safran Foer

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.