Famous Quotes & Sayings

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Napoleon Hill

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Sathya Baba

Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.

Marten Mickos

It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.

Bible Bible

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Nellie McKay

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Caroline Knapp

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Mark Epstein

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Jody Bronson

We've been working toward getting everybody healthy in practice. They showed a lot of heart out there today. It was an all-around effort.

Robert Gordon

Basically, we want everybody to stop for a minute and think about what it is they love about Litchfield, so it will be an example of what we're trying to save.

Here's a good trick: Get a job as a judge at the Olympics. Then, if some guy sets a world record, pretend that you didn't see it and go, "Okay, is everybody ready to start now?".

Linda Evans

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there's nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

David Williams

The Herald-Leader got it wrong, and it was also on the local TV news. I didn't see the Register, but everybody said it was wrong.

Geno Auriemma

That kind of got everybody off and running. And it just kind of took on a life of its own.

Devin Johnson

All of us were just trying to put our games faces on. I don't know how somebody can portray that as being thugs. I guess because of Sally's tattoos. I didn't get that at my school. Everybody thought it was a nice photo.

S. E. Hinton

It seems like everybody we play comes out and shoots lights out in the first quarter.

Jeff Bingaman

It's not realistic to say we are just going to start, all of a sudden, sending everybody home who is here on an undocumented basis, ... You've got to find some process for sorting through those who are here and those who have been here for some substantial period. You have to find some way for their legal status to be regularized ... as legal residents or something at some point in the future.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Richard Hamilton

The peak of an NBA player is 29, 30? So we're still young. We can go as far as we want to go.

Peter McWilliams

You are far more powerful than you ever dreamed.

Samina Ahmed

We will see how far he addresses these concerns.

Ron Finley

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

Larry Terry

We've got some places in mind, and I don't want to talk about them yet. ... As far as Winona State, I can't say, but we would favor that over a high school field in La Crosse.

Elizabeth Edwards

We've had good success so far in reducing the size of the tumor.

David Attenborough

We've lived here for 38 years. This is where our kids were born, and this is my place. As far as I'm concerned, if I can't have this, I don't want anything.

Bobby Vinton

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

Anita Baker

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Anthony Jeselnik

It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.

Ann Brashares

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...

Andy Borowitz

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

Andrea Dworkin

I'm a radical feminist, not the fun kind.

Ana Gasteyer

I actually like character work, so for me, generally speaking, I enjoy it. It's a little bit more of a comfortable suit you put back on. You can explore it and have fun with it and push the limits of it.

Alberto Manguel

Not until I came to Canada did I realize that snow was a four-letter word.

Alex Chilton

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

John Caudwell

At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it.

Jim O'Heir

'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.'

Didier Drogba

Didier, it's done!' he shouted. That made me smile and since then Michael has seemed happy with everything like a kid. He is great to have around the place, he's thirsty for knowledge and he's a great player as well.

John Feehery

did a great job ... in stopping the perpetrator.

Rich Brooks

Disappointment is a mild term. This is devastating for him because he played such a great game. He has been playing better than he ever has, and this is a big disappointment, for him and for our defense.

Mel Karmazin

Dick has been a great leader and he's done a terrific job, and I'm sorry to see him leave, ... Do I think the NYSE would be better run without Dick? No. Do I think the NYSE would be better if I wasn't on the board? No. But if people didn't want me on the board, I'd be very happy not to be on the board.

Travis Whitaker

Dirk does such a great job at preparing his team. We knew they were going to come out with a lot of fire.

Lou Duva

Corpus Christi has had so many great fighters, but they have never really been honored accordingly.

Kathy Duva

Corpus Christi has had so many great fighters, but they have never really been honored accordingly,

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Bobby Lamb

We signed 23 last year, and this year we signed 12. This year we were very selective because we were looking at taking one at every position, basically.

Nikola Tesla

The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Octavio Dotel

What I saw today, it made me feel good. It made my work for the last nine months look good. I've been waiting for it.

David Akers

It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.

Rihanna

To me makeup is a major accessory. It can change an outfit, it can make the outfit, it can be the outfit, and that's why I like to play with it.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Steve Spurrier

So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.

Stacy Schiff

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.

Rick Riordan

All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!

Rick Riordan

Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile.

Roy Spencer

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

Roy Keane

I still say the '94 Double team is the best. They could outfight you or outplay you, depending on the way you wanted it. But this side is moving in the same direction.

Ron Fairly

In all the years I played, he (Stan Williams) was the only guy who ever scared me and he was on my team.

Sue Wicks

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.