Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

What unites all beings is their desire for happiness.

Dalai Lama

Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

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.

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.

Christopher Moore

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Anouk Aimee

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Anouk Aimee

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

Ansel Adams

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

Anne Boleyn

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

Anne Beatts

I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!

Anne Bronte

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

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.

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.

Ambrose Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

Ambrose Bierce

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

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.