Famous Quotes & Sayings

We feel like we have a little more desire than to win just one game. We want to show the world what we can do.

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.

These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.

These guys have intelligence and great desire to work. For the young guys, 'patience' is not in their dictionary. They want to play right away. They're on track.

Joseph Addison

It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?

Aristotle

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Greg Smith

This is not some desire to make (the funding situation) look different, ... This is the actuarial audit.

This is part of growing up and part of learning. They showed a lot of integrity and desire to do the right thing.

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful

Elizabeth Smart

I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

Rajneesh

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

Rajneesh

There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

Rajneesh

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

Rajneesh

Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Rajneesh

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

Tanith Lee

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

Sylvia Plath

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Swami Vivekananda

Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

Swami Vivekananda

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Soren Kierkegaard

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Stephen Colbert

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Thomas Hobbes

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Thomas Kretschmann

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Thomas Jefferson

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Woody Allen

I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.

William James

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

William James

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Will Cotton

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

Warren G. Bennis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Saint Basil

When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.

Saint Augustine

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.