Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adela Florence Nicolson

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Adam Smith

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

Abraham Cowley

Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.

Matt Brown

We stayed focused and didn't let up because our desire and energy to win our tournament was evident with our tenacious play,

Aleksandar Hemon

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Alfred North Whitehead

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

Aldous Huxley

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

A. S. Byatt

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

A. A. Milne

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Adrienne Rich

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Caroline Knapp

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

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.

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.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Cyril Tourneur

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are a thousand miles about

Meditate on the Lord, twenty four hours a day, the fruits of the heart s desires are obtained.

Jean Fritz

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.

One of the things that will kind of go unnoticed is that in the last month of the season our seniors were the ones that led us. Todd and Matt played like all-conference players and that was desire and wanting it more.

Rene Descartes

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

Jeremy Taylor

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

One whose mind is pure and chaste, and who works incessantly all the desires of his heart are fulfilled.

Charles Eastman

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Ariel Sharon

We desire a life living side-by-side, in understanding and peace. We have no desire to rule over you. We have no desire to run your affairs.

Jane Addams

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

Jane Austen

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

Jane Austen

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Janine Turner

My desire is to walk with God every day.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Jane Wagner

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?