Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Francis Chan

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life, O Krishna?

Jean-Luc Godard

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

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.

Cruelty, attachment, desire and egotism - there is great hunger in these, like the raging torrent of a wild stream.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Sathya Baba

Another point; you desire that I should come to your houses, you pray to Me to do so, you grieve when I do not come, you start reviling yourself that you are poorer than others, that you are spiritually underdeveloped perhaps, and so on. I have no place in My heart for such distinctions and differences.

Another pendulum shift is inevitable, and new desires are surfacing.

Robert Collier

First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth.

Manny Acta

Everybody who had the desire to play prepared themselves for this tournament. Our guys saw enough pitches. They had enough at-bats. No excuses.

As soon as we put together our proposal, which will include what we are going to use the funds for, how we are going to repay it, the desired results and so on, we will go to the Ministry of Finance to have discussions on it. And once they sign off on it, we can then go to the financial institution.

Todd Akin

As the President said in his Inaugural Address, the people of the world have a desire to live in liberty.

I still enjoy playing and I still have a desire to play.

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

I've been pleasantly surprised with their desire to learn. There's a great desire to learn with this bunch. They're hungry.

We just talked about our heart and our desire. We've been working for this since we were first-graders.

Dogen

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

We feel there's a real desire to reach consensus, and we're working very well with House and Senate leadership.

We feel like we have a little more desire than to win just one game. We want to show the world what we can do.

A trip to India is no longer just a desired but a required part of an American president's itinerary.

A trip to India is no longer just a desired - but a required - part of an American president's itinerary.

A trip to India is no longer just a desired -- but a required -- part of an American president's itinerary.

Discipline. Anthony has that desire to be the best.

Do we indeed desire the dead/ Should still be near us at our side?/ Is there no baseness we would hide?/ No inner vileness that we dread?

There's a great desire in people after a tragedy like this to go back to their lives as it was, ... This may not be possible for some.