Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

Juan Pablo Galavis

You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living.

Joseph Conrad

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

Joshua Harris

Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.

Kate Mosse

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Lawrence Welk

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Lisa Bonet

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap

When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lord Byron

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Lou Holtz

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Lou Holtz

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Maimonides

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are some desires that are not desirable.

John Eldredge

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

John Dryden

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

John Lasseter

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

John Lancaster Spalding

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

John Baldessari

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

George MacDonald

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

George MacDonald

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

Emily Ratajkowski

Sex is normal. Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

Elisabeth Shue

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Joel Osteen

God's desire is that we excel.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

Susan Sontag

Desire has no history...