Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meghan O'Rourke

Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.

Sheryl Crow

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

Nora Ephron

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

Mike Murdock

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

Mignon McLaughlin

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

John Ruskin

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

Mario Cuomo

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

Marilyn Manson

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

Mason Cooley

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

Mason Cooley

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Mason Cooley

The desire to perform impedes conversation.

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

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.

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.

Frankly, no, ... There's a persistent desire of mankind to live near the water. It's like Americans and their automobiles.

Sathya Baba

Friendship is the expression of unshakable LOVE, LOVE that is noble, pure, free from desire or egoism.

Ben Wallace

I don't think we played with the heart and desire that we usually play with. We didn't come out and impose our will on this team. This league is strange like that, you look to come out and win every game but things happen. Some nights it doesn't go for you and tonight was one of those nights.

Rick Barnes

If it goes well in the league, even though my son has never shown any desire whatsoever to coach, ... In about four years if he doesn't have a job, I am going to hire him.

He worked harder than anybody. Each day he wants to get better and better. He has that desire that not many people have.

Jim Gaffigan

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

Francis Crick

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

He still has the passion and the desire to play, and he's going to help this hockey team.

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.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

John Oates

Most relationships where two people have the same motivation, needs, desires and requirements... there's usually a butting of heads at one point.

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 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.

Whoever desires the gain of the hereafter, We will give him more of that again; and whoever desires-- the gain of this world, We give him of it, and in the hereafter he has no portion.

Jean Rostand

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

Giulio Andreotti

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

Giacomo Leopardi

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.