Famous Quotes & Sayings

When the rich think of the impoverished, they think of impoverished desires.

Luis Suarez

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.

Richard G. Scott

But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences. Perhaps you have been prompted to look for ancestors but feel you are not a genealogist. Can you see that you don’t have to be anymore? It all begins with love and a sincere desire to help those beyond the veil who can’t help themselves. Check around. There will be someone in your area who can help you have success.

Susan B. Anthony

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

The product palette of Volkswagen hasn't had a family friendly van which speaks to the specific desires of our American customers. With this new vehicle, we will quickly tap into another large market segment with our own product.

Booth Tarkington

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Bob Dole

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Billy Connolly

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Brigitte Bardot

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Brian Tracy

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

Brian Tracy

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Brian Herbert

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Brendan Fraser

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Juvenal

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

Juvenal

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Kim Jee-woon

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

Kate Bush

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

Layne Staley

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

This was not about our desire not to have him as part of our organization for a long, long time,

Blaise Pascal

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Dorothy Allison

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

Charles Olson

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Charles R. Swindoll

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

Democritus

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Denis Diderot

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Dan Ariely

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Desire creates its own object.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

Benjamin Graham

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

Chris Alexander

She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.

She has so much desire. She's 5-foot-8, 5-foot-9, playing in the post and gets double-doubles on a regular basis. Lindsay's an incredible player.