Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Thomas Hobbes

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Thomas Hobbes

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Thomas Kretschmann

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Thomas Jefferson

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

Victoria Woodhull

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Victor Hugo

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Victor Hugo

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Victor Hugo

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

Veronica Roth

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful

Soren Kierkegaard

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Tanith Lee

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

Sylvia Plath

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Swami Vivekananda

Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

Swami Vivekananda

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

Rumi

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Rumi

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

Rumi

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

Rumi

All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you...

Rumi

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

Rumi

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

Todd Gitlin

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Todd Gitlin

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Sun Tzu

Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Norman Angell

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Miguel de Cervantes

I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

Theodore Roethke

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

Margaret Drabble

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

Philip Guston

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else...

Martin Scorsese

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.