Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meagan Good

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

Max Muller

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

Max Lucado

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Maurice Blanchot

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

Matthew Henry

I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

The dream is His, and the kingdom is His; He who has given the wealth of Maya, has infused the desire for it.

Nate Lowman

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

John Gardner

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Jonathan Edwards

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Katey Sagal

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.

Kate Winslet

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that,

Judith Martin

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Quintilian

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Pliny the Elder

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Philip Yancey

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Pope Francis

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Paul Tillich

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Paul de Man

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Patrick Chan

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Ovid

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Ovid

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Ovid

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Paul McCartney

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Meher Baba

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Nothing will be able to hinder us, if we desire and seek God alone, and take pleasure in nothing else.

John Irving

We are formed by what we desire

John Hodgman

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

Leo Hindery

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

Lauren Groff

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

Lady Gaga

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.