Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

Francis Quarles

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.

Francis Quarles

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

Ian Fleming

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

Horace

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Horace

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Cameron Russell

If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

Giordano Bruno

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

J. M. Coetzee

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Guillermo del Toro

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

George Herbert

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Friedrich Nietzsche

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Jerry Bridges

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

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

He's got all the physical attributes. He's got all of the desire. He's got everything going for him, except his size.

Hasim Rahman

He showed tremendous heart in his fight with Lennox Lewis, and he did show desire, ... He proved he was a champion. I really respect this man. I really feel like he can hurt me if I come with any less than my A-plus game.

If consumers' desire for large SUVs does not snap back, GM will be launching its new full size SUVs into an unwelcoming market.

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Sathya Baba

What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others, as you want to be respected by them.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

We are happy to welcome these new owners into our league. It speaks great volumes of the quality of the young men that graduate from our league and their desire to give back to the communities that supported them through their junior careers.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Orison Swett Marden

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

Slash

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.