Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

George Bernard Shaw

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

George Bernard Shaw

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

Franz Kafka

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Eric Clapton

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Jay Asher

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

Hannah More

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

He still has the passion and the desire to play, and he's going to help this hockey team.

He's just an intense competitor. He's got a desire to do well, and he really works at it.

HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

Oliver Cromwell

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Cyril Tourneur

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are a thousand miles about

Meditate on the Lord, twenty four hours a day, the fruits of the heart s desires are obtained.

Jean Fritz

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.

One of the things that will kind of go unnoticed is that in the last month of the season our seniors were the ones that led us. Todd and Matt played like all-conference players and that was desire and wanting it more.

Rene Descartes

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

Jeremy Taylor

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

I think there's a desire to win in this organization. It's run by the greatest man in hockey. I think it's going to be fun to be a part of.

I saw a lot of me in her. I also saw her desire and her good work ethic. It was worth taking a chance.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

That desire to win the game was not there,

Looking back on it now, I don't see how we had the desire and the determination to keep going back because we kept getting knocked down, knocked down, knocked down,'' said Tony Glover, who joined the team late in 1983 and stayed until 1996." ()

Benjamin Franklin

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

William Blake

Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

John Oates

Most relationships where two people have the same motivation, needs, desires and requirements... there's usually a butting of heads at one point.

Barry McGuigan

There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.

Bill Shoemaker

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

C. S. Lewis

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Bernard Berenson

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.