Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Mason Cooley

Desire is wakeful; satisfaction dozes.

Mason Cooley

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

Mason Cooley

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

Mason Cooley

Rebuttals never alter desire.

Mason Cooley

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

Mason Cooley

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

Mason Cooley

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Mason Cooley

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

Mason Cooley

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

Michel Houellebecq

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

Louis Farrakhan

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

Melanie Lynskey

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Michel de Montaigne

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Michel de Montaigne

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Michel de Montaigne

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Michel de Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.

Robert Frost

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Albert Einstein

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

When the rich think of the impoverished, they think of impoverished desires.

Plato

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Francis Bacon

Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.

Basically, I think the desire to wait and see is very strong right now. That being said, U.S. stocks, especially the Nasdaq index, were weaker ... so the market is likely to move lower.

My desire is to see the project go forward. There have been too many good people that have put a lot of trust and faith in this process. God willing, it will materialize in some fashion.

More than we use is more than we want.

E. B. White

My goal this season is to make it into the regional finals. I have more desire and strength this season and feel I am ready.

Pauline Hanson

My greatest desire is to see all Australians treat each other as equals as we travel together towards the new century.

Next year I hope we can just fill the spots of the six seniors. I hope the girls return with the same desire they showed up with this season and improve on what we had this year.