Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stevens

We recognize the important role that public worship plays in many communities, as well as the sincere desire to include public prayer as a part of various occasions so as to mark those occasions' significance,

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Cormac McCarthy

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Cormac McCarthy

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Coventry Patmore

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Brian Behlendorf

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

Amy Bloom

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

George Muller

The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.

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,

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.

George Muller

The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

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.

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.

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,

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.

David A. Bednar

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

David A. Bednar

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

David O. McKay

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

Daisaku Ikeda

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Claude M. Bristol

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Claude Monet

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.