Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let reason govern desire.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

Margaret Thatcher

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom

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.

Pierre Corneille

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Pierre Corneille

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Philippa Gregory

Some women attract desire. Others do not.

Pope Francis

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Pope Francis

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

Pope Francis

An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.

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.

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.

Tennessee Williams

All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Seth

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

Lawrence Durrell

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

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.

Pema Chodron

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Phyllis Bottome

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Phyllis Bottome

There is no thermometer for wants!

Kathy Acker

We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.