Famous Quotes & Sayings

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Albert Einstein

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

She's tough, smart, and has a strong desire to make the varsity team in her final season.

Mike Kerr

She's really improved a lot. She went from being a minute to two-minute player to a 10- to 12-minute player. It really comes from her desire to do the little things. She's not going to score 15 points a game, but she is going to do all the little things. That has increased her playing time dramatically.

She's got a strong desire to go on.

Dorothy Allison

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

Charles Olson

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Charles R. Swindoll

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

Diane Lane

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

Democritus

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Denis Diderot

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Oliver Cromwell

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Cyril Tourneur

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are a thousand miles about

Meditate on the Lord, twenty four hours a day, the fruits of the heart s desires are obtained.

Jean Fritz

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.

One of the things that will kind of go unnoticed is that in the last month of the season our seniors were the ones that led us. Todd and Matt played like all-conference players and that was desire and wanting it more.

Susan B. Anthony

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

The product palette of Volkswagen hasn't had a family friendly van which speaks to the specific desires of our American customers. With this new vehicle, we will quickly tap into another large market segment with our own product.

Booth Tarkington

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

Bob Dole

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

When the rich think of the impoverished, they think of impoverished desires.

Luis Suarez

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.

Bill Shoemaker

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

I think he's going to have a tremendous impact season for them. I'm sure he's hungry. He's missed a year, he has a great desire to get back into the flow of things and I'm sure he'll be featured this Saturday.

I think he just had an outstanding five or six weeks with us. He's rekindled his desire to be a real player, and I think he's positioning himself to have a great World Cup.

I think his success has a lot more to do with his desire than with his mind. I am never going to doubt his desire or level of it. My opinion and about 200 other coaches' opinions is that he made it possible at the state meet because he wanted to.

C. S. Lewis

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

Ray Romano

We want to recognize that it is the end of the show without really saying it. But we'll satisfy the audience's desire for a little heart.

It has been Cynthia's desire to work with children's literacy.

Thomas Doll

We only played well for 20 minutes, but the players' engagement, their desire will help us the rest of the season.

There is that desire to go surf the waves by yourself, just you and nature and I will never do it again, never.