Famous Quotes & Sayings

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Warren G. Bennis

To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.

Saint Augustine

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Saint Augustine

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Saint Augustine

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Zachary Quinto

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

Zach Braff

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

William Godwin

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

William Feather

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

T. Harv Eker

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Ho Chi Minh

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Henry Ford

The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

Heraclitus

Things keep their secrets.

Helena Christensen

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

Haruki Murakami

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

Greg Abbott

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Jonathan Lethem

The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism,

Joe Pantoliano

The camera looks into your soul.

Joe Perry

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

Jimi Hendrix

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

Jimi Hendrix

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

Emmanuelle Beart

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

Emma Goldman

Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

John Jewel

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

Mark Martin

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

Michael Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Samuel Smiles

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Robert Duvall

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

Robert Duvall

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.

Robert De Niro

A lot of young actors have the idea that, "I've got to do this right. There's a right way to do this." But there's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And "bad" usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing for actors - and not just actors, but everybody - is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices.

Valerie Harper

I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she said, 'My nuns and I take very good care of ourselves so we can tend to the lepers and do whatever we need to assist.' If you're strong, or at least not hurting, you can inspire others.

Valerie Harper

When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.

Robin G. Collingwood

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.