Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Henley

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions..

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Colin Wilson

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

Dalai Lama

Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

Dalai Lama

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

Dalai Lama

Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.

Dalai Lama

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Dalai Lama

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

Dalai Lama

An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Amy Carmichael

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

Annette Bening

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

Anne Sexton

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

D. H. Lawrence

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

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.

Nina Hagen

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.

Mitch Albom

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

Mike Tyson

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

Miguel de Cervantes

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Neil Gaiman

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

John Waters

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.