Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Hutchinson

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

Alber Elbaz

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Albert Camus

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Annie Lennox

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Anna Wickham

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

Cindy Gallop

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

Alfred Brendel

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

Angela Carter

I desire therefore I exist.

Angela Carter

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

Amy Sedaris

I have no desire to carry a movie.

Aloe Blacc

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

Andre Gide

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

Angel Haze

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

Anais Nin

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Anne Carson

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Anne Carson

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Anne Carson

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

William Shakespeare

It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

Orison Swett Marden

There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

Rich Hill

Those are the kind of teams I've always been around. Scrappy guys who like to train hard, put the team first and have an intense desire to succeed. So the superstar thing kind of goes out the window.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Rita Rudner

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

Rajneesh

Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature.

Storm Jameson

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Thomas Hobbes

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Thomas Hobbes

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Sun Tzu

Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Norman Angell

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Miguel de Cervantes

I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

Theodore Roethke

The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

Margaret Drabble

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

Martin Scorsese

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

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.