Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Cotton

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

Rebecca Miller

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

Richard Krajicek

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

Trey Parker

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Ulysses S. Grant

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

Robin G. Collingwood

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Robert Reich

There is a deep desire to change the power structure.

Robert Smith

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

Samuel Rutherford

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

Samuel Johnson

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

Samuel Johnson

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Wallace Stevens

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Vivek Wadhwa

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Willa Cather

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Willa Cather

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

Wayne Dyer

Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become.

Wayne Dyer

When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.

Wayne Dyer

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

Virginia Woolf

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

William Blake

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

William Blake

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

Wendy Whelan

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.

Walker Percy

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Salvador Dali

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Salvador Dali

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Salman Rushdie

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

William Cobbett

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

William Congreve

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Wayne Dyer

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.

Wayne Dyer

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.