Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aloe Blacc

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.

Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.

George Meredith

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

Robert Frost

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Rene Descartes

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

Jeremy Taylor

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

One whose mind is pure and chaste, and who works incessantly all the desires of his heart are fulfilled.

My desire is to see the project go forward. There have been too many good people that have put a lot of trust and faith in this process. God willing, it will materialize in some fashion.

More than we use is more than we want.

E. B. White

My goal this season is to make it into the regional finals. I have more desire and strength this season and feel I am ready.

Pauline Hanson

My greatest desire is to see all Australians treat each other as equals as we travel together towards the new century.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Eleanor Catton

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Eduardo Galeano

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Aristotle

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

Aristotle

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Aristotle

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

Elizabeth Blackwell

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Deepak Chopra

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

Deepak Chopra

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

Deepak Chopra

Everything I desire is within me.

Deepak Chopra

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

Deepak Chopra

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

Deepak Chopra

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

Dionne Warwick

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

Chris Alexander

She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.

She has so much desire. She's 5-foot-8, 5-foot-9, playing in the post and gets double-doubles on a regular basis. Lindsay's an incredible player.

Charlotte Rampling

She places in this young man all the desire and all the hope that she yearns for in her life, which finally turns out to be an imaginary life, but her imagination makes her really feel something for him.

Next year I hope we can just fill the spots of the six seniors. I hope the girls return with the same desire they showed up with this season and improve on what we had this year.

Plato

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.