Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hayao Miyazaki

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

Horace

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

Herbert Spencer

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Herbert Spencer

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Henry David Thoreau

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Jillian Michaels

You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire.

Jacques Delors

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Jacques Derrida

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

J. R. R. Tolkien

Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

Izabella Scorupco

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

Francis Quarles

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.

Francis Quarles

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Ian Fleming

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

Horace

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Horace

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

Esther Hicks

There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve.

Evita Peron

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.