Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelangelo

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Layne Beachley

I haven't prepared as much I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

I'm just glad to get out of here with a win. I think it's easier to play with MLS teams than play with these teams because of their desire and how they play. They're looking for that one chance. It would be nice to go out and put them away after 20 minutes, but it's never going to be like that.

If Museveni succeeds in his desire to win a third term, we may be looking at another Mugabe and Zimbabwe in the making.

Kelvin Sampson

I have no desire to go anywhere. I have a desire to make my team better. . . . It ain't time for me to go yet.

Mary Lou Retton

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Jacques Lacan

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Laura Esquivel

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Johnny Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

John Yoo

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Jim Calhoun

You can?t predict this thing ... two, three, four all gone. How do you predict these things? The whole idea that No. 1 gets the easy route ... there are no easy routes. Those teams at 16 are really good, and they have incredible desire to win. By the time you get to 8-9, you?re facing really good teams.

These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.

Hu Jintao

All this gives expression to the shared desire of our two peoples for peace, friendship and mutual development.

The donations to hurricane relief reflect our desire to reach out to the victims of this terrible disaster.

The dream is His, and the kingdom is His; He who has given the wealth of Maya, has infused the desire for it.

These guys have intelligence and great desire to work. For the young guys, 'patience' is not in their dictionary. They want to play right away. They're on track.

Eric Hoffer

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

Napoleon Hill

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Emily Greene Balch

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Sathya Baba

Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.

It's something intangible. It's a desire to do the right thing.

It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Nellie McKay

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Caroline Knapp

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Mindy Kaling

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

Kirk Douglas

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

Kim Cattrall

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Kevin Costner

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

Marya Mannes

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?