Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

Louis Farrakhan

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

Melanie Lynskey

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Mary Roach

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Marquis de Sade

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Mark Epstein

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Mary MacLane

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

Mark Twain

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

Marya Mannes

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

Marya Hornbacher

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

Marya Hornbacher

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

Michel de Montaigne

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Michel de Montaigne

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Michel de Montaigne

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Mario Cuomo

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

Marilyn Manson

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

Gertrude Stein

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Hayao Miyazaki

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

John Ruskin

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Norman Angell

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Norm MacDonald

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

Miguel de Cervantes

I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

Miguel de Cervantes

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

The donations to hurricane relief reflect our desire to reach out to the victims of this terrible disaster.

The dream is His, and the kingdom is His; He who has given the wealth of Maya, has infused the desire for it.

Jonathan Edwards

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Katey Sagal

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.