Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was telling them that the game is not over. They showed the desire not to give up.

Richard Williams

I would be a liar if I said my desire to get back into the ring had never waned,

She's tough, smart, and has a strong desire to make the varsity team in her final season.

Mike Kerr

She's really improved a lot. She went from being a minute to two-minute player to a 10- to 12-minute player. It really comes from her desire to do the little things. She's not going to score 15 points a game, but she is going to do all the little things. That has increased her playing time dramatically.

She's got a strong desire to go on.

Chris Alexander

She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.

She has so much desire. She's 5-foot-8, 5-foot-9, playing in the post and gets double-doubles on a regular basis. Lindsay's an incredible player.

Charlotte Rampling

She places in this young man all the desire and all the hope that she yearns for in her life, which finally turns out to be an imaginary life, but her imagination makes her really feel something for him.

Cyrus Broacha

I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

Jim Gaffigan

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

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.

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.

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.

Fay Weldon

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Ezra Taft Benson

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

Francis Fukuyama

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

Francis Beaumont

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

Francis Beaumont

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

Francis Crick

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Francis Chan

Do you want to see God more than you desire security?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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.

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.

Cate Blanchett

You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.

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