Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Aquinas

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

Thomas Aquinas

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Therese of Lisieux

Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.

Swami Vivekananda

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Tony Robbins

Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most

Sinead O'Connor

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

Simone Weil

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

Simone Weil

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Ovid

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Ovid

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Ovid

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Paul McCartney

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Henri Poincare

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Henri Nouwen

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Hjalmar Branting

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

Heston Blumenthal

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault

Hideo Kojima

My unlimited desire to create stuff surpasses the advancement in hardware power.

Heraclitus

The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.

Heraclitus

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Henry Fielding

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Henry Fielding

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.