Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ulysses S. Grant

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

Robin G. Collingwood

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Robert Reich

There is a deep desire to change the power structure.

Robert Collier

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Robert Collier

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

Richard Paul Evans

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

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.

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.

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.

Rebecca Miller

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

Sri Aurobindo

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

Thomas Merton

You are made in the image of what you desire.

Tony Kushner

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

Steven Erikson

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

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.

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.

Walt Whitman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?