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.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Jim Pattison

I've got a lot of respect for tuba players, just carrying that thing around.

Markwayne Mullin

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

Mary J. Blige

You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

Juan Somavia

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Joseph Joubert

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Moliere

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Molly Ivins

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Ken Salazar

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

Mark Twain

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.