Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanislaw Lem

Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

Sun Tzu

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

Richard Simmons

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

Rand Paul

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

Sheena Iyengar

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Michael Pollan

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Seth Godin

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Seth Godin

You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

Ravi Zacharias

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Slavoj Zizek

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Rajneesh

It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.

Socrates

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Sigmar Gabriel

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

Norman Angell

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

Norm MacDonald

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

Marie de France

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

Theodore Roethke

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

Margaret Mitchell

She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Margaret Drabble

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

Margaret Fuller

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

Michael Foley

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

Melissa Marr

Love ans desire aren't the same

Meagan Good

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

Max Muller

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

Max Lucado

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Maurice Blanchot

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

Matthew Henry

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.