Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

Antonio Porchia

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Brother Lawrence

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

Brother Lawrence

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Brother Lawrence

To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?

We're going to make an effort to communicate with Tiger and several other players . . . and express our great desire for them come to Milwaukee.

Usually, it takes between 10 and 20 layers to get the desired coating,

We expressed a strong desire to keep plants open,

David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

David Brainerd

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

David Brainerd

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

David Brainerd

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Ben Stiller

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Beatrix Potter

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Beau Bridges

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

Audrey Tautou

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

Arnold Palmer

A lot of tournaments that I can remember I made a few bad shots and I was afraid I would lose the tournament and it seemed to work, the putts seemed to go in. Just the Desire.

Sathya Baba

Wealth has to be earned through Righteousness. Desire has to be for Liberation.

Denzel Washington

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be … that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.

Deborah Harkness

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Deepak Chopra

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

Deepak Chopra

Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add new information, and manifest whatever we want, need, or desire. Abundance is unlimited, unbounded, and always available.

Deepak Chopra

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

Deepak Chopra

Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.

When the rich think of the impoverished, they think of impoverished desires.

Luis Suarez

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.

Plato

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Francis Bacon

Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

Baruch Spinoza

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

Baruch Spinoza

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

Baruch Spinoza

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.