Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Juan Pablo Galavis

You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living.

Otto Weininger

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Ouida

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Kathy Acker

We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

Paul Tillich

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Paul de Man

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Patrick Chan

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

Maggie Gallagher

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are some desires that are not desirable.

John Eldredge

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

John Dryden

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Jim Calhoun

You can?t predict this thing ... two, three, four all gone. How do you predict these things? The whole idea that No. 1 gets the easy route ... there are no easy routes. Those teams at 16 are really good, and they have incredible desire to win. By the time you get to 8-9, you?re facing really good teams.

Meg Cabot

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

Max Beckmann

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Matthew Quick

You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Matthew Quick

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

The donations to hurricane relief reflect our desire to reach out to the victims of this terrible disaster.

The dream is His, and the kingdom is His; He who has given the wealth of Maya, has infused the desire for it.

Jonathan Edwards

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

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,

Rebecca West

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.