Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

Helena Christensen

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

Toni Morrison

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

Karel Reisz

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Joyce Meyer

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Katharine Hepburn

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Mario Cuomo

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

Marilyn Manson

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

Mary Roach

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Marquis de Sade

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Mark Epstein

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Martin Luther

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

Martin Luther

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

Nicole Kidman

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

Nick Bantock

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

Philip Sidney

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

Philip Guston

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else...

Henry Van Dyke

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

Henri Poincare

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

Henri Nouwen

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Laura Esquivel

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Libba Bray

Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

Johnny Evers

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

John Yoo

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Ahmed Chalabi

The elections went well because the Iraqi people have an overwhelming desire to vote. The unions of people are stronger than the handful of terrorists. And the terrorists threw everything they had into this fray, and they lost.

The enemy is ever vigilant. He's out there seeking whom he may desire. There have to be more of us.

The EU-3 is comfortable with where things are in the sense that there is a process that has been put in place, and that process should be able to lead to the desired solution.

Meg Cabot

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

Max Beckmann

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

Matthew Quick

You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.