Famous Quotes & Sayings

My desire is to see the project go forward. There have been too many good people that have put a lot of trust and faith in this process. God willing, it will materialize in some fashion.

Dogen

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Bat for Lashes

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

Otto Dix

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Aristophanes

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Sallust

Few men desire liberty; the majority are satisfied with a just master.

Families here have wishes and desires no different from people in Omaha.

Charles Spurgeon

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be connected, informed and entertained in transit.

While it is relatively straightforward to point out flaws in a tax system and to express a desire for change, it is much more challenging to settle on a specific solution. There are difficult trade-offs,

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.

Dan Gilroy

'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

There is no serious intention towards political reform and what we are now seeing ... is evidence of the lack of any desire for political reform.

Charles Djou

We can't seem to get it right because of legal mechanics. We have the money; we have the desire.

We have been contacted by hourly employees who have expressed a desire to return to work.

Mark Twain

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure

There is a desire to recycle as much as possible, but there is also a strong drive to do this as soon as possible.

Tom Daschle

There is a desire to keep talking and find a way around this impasse, ... I think the five people in the room all expressed a desire to keep talking, and that is what we're doing.

We're trying to do everything we can to keep him going. He's got a real strong desire to play, and he's played in pain the last month or two.

Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

Why is it so universally upsetting for men to have women around them on anything like a footing of equality? Why is the resentment as deep-seated as ever, even if it is now underground? Individual men may have no desire whatever to put women in their

This trade is governed by the desire of people in the West to purchase these items; it's similar to the drug trade,

Thomas Doll

We only played well for 20 minutes, but the players' engagement, their desire will help us the rest of the season.

When we've got a group that's as enthusiastic as they are and that has the energy and desire to make something work, I want to make sure we tap into that, ... You don't get that kind of enthusiasm very often.

We welcome President Arroyo's desire to lift the state of emergency as soon as possible.

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.