Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Holmes

Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There is a supply for every demand.

Jeff Fisher

External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

Jack W. Szostak

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

Christopher Jones

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Frank Iero

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

Francoise Sagan

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Francoise Sagan

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

George Herbert

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

Christiane Amanpour

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

Chris Isaak

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

George W. Bush

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Frantz Fanon

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

Franz Grillparzer

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Georges Bataille

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

Georges Bataille

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.

Jean Rostand

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

Grimes

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

Giulio Andreotti

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

Hugh Grant

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Horace

Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

Horace

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Fernando Pessoa

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.