Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Munro

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

Anne Hutchinson

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

Alber Elbaz

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Albert Camus

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Annie Lennox

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Anna Wickham

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

D. H. Lawrence

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

Alexander McCall Smith

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

E. Stanley Jones

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

E. M. Forster

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Don Johnson

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Doris Lessing

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Daniel Craig

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

Dan Brown

God's will is your deepest desires.

David Platt

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

David Lodge

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

David Levithan

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

Della Reese

If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.

Alphonsus Liguori

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

Cindy Gallop

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

Alfred Brendel

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

Angela Carter

I desire therefore I exist.

Angela Carter

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

Amy Sedaris

I have no desire to carry a movie.

Aloe Blacc

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Andre Gide

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Angel Haze

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

Anais Nin

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Anne Carson

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Anne Carson

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Anne Carson

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

Christopher Moore

Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.