Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salvador Dali

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Salman Rushdie

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

William Cobbett

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

William Congreve

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Wayne Dyer

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.

Wayne Dyer

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

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

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

Victoria Woodhull

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Victor Hugo

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Victor Hugo

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Russell M. Nelson

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Saadi

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Saadi

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Stonewall Jackson

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Storm Jameson

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Pema Chodron

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Phyllis Bottome

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Phyllis Bottome

There is no thermometer for wants!

Rabindranath Tagore

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Seth

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

Lawrence Durrell

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.