Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Feather

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

William Butler Yeats

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Walter Russell

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

Walter Russell

The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.

Walter Russell

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

Woodrow Wilson

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Woody Allen

I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor.

William James

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

William James

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Will Cotton

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

Salvador Dali

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Salvador Dali

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Salman Rushdie

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

William Cobbett

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

William Congreve

O, she is the antidote to desire.

Wayne Dyer

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.

Wayne Dyer

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

Walt Whitman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Sarah Dessen

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

Roland Barthes

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

Roland Barthes

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Rod Stewart

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

Robert Smith

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

William Hazlitt

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

Vladimir Nabokov

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

William Penn

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Zig Ziglar

Desire is the great equalizer.

Zig Ziglar

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Thomas Pogge

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.