Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Barbara Sher

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.

George Meredith

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

Robert Frost

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Albert Einstein

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

She's tough, smart, and has a strong desire to make the varsity team in her final season.

Mike Kerr

She's really improved a lot. She went from being a minute to two-minute player to a 10- to 12-minute player. It really comes from her desire to do the little things. She's not going to score 15 points a game, but she is going to do all the little things. That has increased her playing time dramatically.

Diane Lane

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Democritus

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Denis Diderot

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Eleanor Catton

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Eduardo Galeano

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Aristotle

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

Aristotle

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Aristotle

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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

Gina Bellman

I love acting, and I have no desire to direct.

Zoe Kravitz

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

We have a spirit of working together, and we have a passion for cars. And we also have a great desire to see the Ford name in the forefront of world transportation.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Donatella Versace

I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

Dennis Ross

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

We are happy to welcome these new owners into our league. It speaks great volumes of the quality of the young men that graduate from our league and their desire to give back to the communities that supported them through their junior careers.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Sathya Baba

What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others, as you want to be respected by them.