Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Hughes

If we truly desire to reach a better understanding of each other we have to stop demonizing each other and replace hate with hope.

Danny Wuerffel

If using my name to get Desire Street in the door so people will listen is my God-given purpose, then so be it.

Benjamin Franklin

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few

I'm just glad to get out of here with a win. I think it's easier to play with MLS teams than play with these teams because of their desire and how they play. They're looking for that one chance. It would be nice to go out and put them away after 20 minutes, but it's never going to be like that.

If Museveni succeeds in his desire to win a third term, we may be looking at another Mugabe and Zimbabwe in the making.

Nicholas Sparks

I have no desire to write screenplays-at heart, I'm a novelist.

Kelvin Sampson

I have no desire to go anywhere. I have a desire to make my team better. . . . It ain't time for me to go yet.

Jewel Staite

I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.

I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

Linda Cardellini

I had the desire to go to Los Angeles, and it's paid off for me. I can't complain.

Aristotle

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

It wasn't a numbers game at all. It was a desire to have a leadership team that was uniquely selected to serve the Greenville market.

It was simply motivated by a desire to engage students more, and to make our education more relevant.

It says a lot about David's desire that he was been able to place sixth for being so banged up.

It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.

E. O. Wilson

It's going to be a great race. I can't imagine an environment where someone would leave this kind of situation that has so many positive attributes. What I like the most about Katherine is that she is tenacious in her desire to help Florida and it's going to show through and the race is going to get closer.

It just goes to show, if you have the drive and the desire, we have the resources here at the University.

David A. Bednar

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

David A. Bednar

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

David O. McKay

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

Daisaku Ikeda

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Claude M. Bristol

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Bill Gates

I'm not, you know, particularly good at this. Maybe I'll never be good at it. But to walk around to each patient and ask, you know, what is your problem? And be respectful of, you know, their desire for privacy. But I think it is very important. If people got out like that, you know these problems would get addressed.

Scott Thomas

If you make learning lecture-based alone, it detracts from the desire to know what's going on. You have to make it real for kids.

I think our fire and desire to win the game made us play better as a team.

Caitlin is a girl who has got such a remarkable inner drive that she has the desire to win every time she steps up on the block. She always wants to better her time.

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.

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.