Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

Russell Brand

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Rhonda Britten

Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.

Rebecca Solnit

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...

Rhonda Byrne

I looked at what my talents and desires are and decided to start my own business. I like the advantage of being able to work at a slower pace if I need to do that and there is no one pressuring me to work faster

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.

Meher Baba

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

Pierre Corneille

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Pierre Corneille

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Philippa Gregory

Some women attract desire. Others do not.

Pope Francis

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Pope Francis

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

Pope Francis

An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.

Quintilian

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Pliny the Elder

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Philip Yancey

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Pope Francis

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Victor Hugo

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

Veronica Roth

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Rita Rudner

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

Rene Descartes

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible.

Rene Descartes

Good sense is the most equitably distributed of all things because no matter how much or little a person has, everyone feels so abundantly provided with good sense that he feels no desire for more than he already possesses.

Rene Descartes

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

Thomas F. Wilson

The fewer desires, the more peace.

Thomas Sowell

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

Thomas Pogge

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.