Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Colbert

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

Wallace Stevens

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Vivek Wadhwa

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Willa Cather

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Willa Cather

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

Wayne Dyer

Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become.

Wayne Dyer

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Wayne Dyer

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

Virginia Woolf

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

William Blake

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

William Blake

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

Wendy Whelan

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.

Walker Percy

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Salvador Dali

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

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.

William Feather

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

William Butler Yeats

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Walter Russell

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

Walter Russell

The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.

Walter Russell

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

Woodrow Wilson

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Woody Allen

I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.

William James

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

William James

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.