Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Francesca Annis

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Chris Isaak

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Frank Iero

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

Francoise Sagan

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

Francoise Sagan

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

George Herbert

In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie.

Christiane Amanpour

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

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

J. C. Ryle

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ''Joy is not in things, it is in us.''

He's like an extension of me out there. He has such a desire to play and win. He knows where everyone is on the field.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Frantz Fanon

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

Franz Grillparzer

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Georges Bataille

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

Georges Bataille

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.

Jean-Luc Godard

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

For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Rene Descartes

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

George Boole

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.