Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Harper

Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself

Stanislaw Lem

Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

Tippi Hedren

I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.

Thomas Troward

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Toni Morrison

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

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.

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.

Rumi

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Rumi

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

Rumi

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

Rumi

All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you...

Rumi

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

Rumi

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.