Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard Williams

In my experience of shame, the other sees all of me and all through me, even if the occasion of shame is on my surface -- for instance, in my appearance; and the expression of shame, in general, as well as in the particular form of it that is embarrassment, is not just the desire to hide, or to hide my face, but the desire to disappear, not to be there. It is not even the wish, as people say, to sink through the floor, but rather the wish that the space occupied by me should be instantaneously empty. With guilt it is not like this. I am more dominated by the thought that even if I disappeared, it would come with me.

I knew what his desires were, but we didn't get to that point. We talked about four or five different scenarios.

I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own.

Maurice Clarett

I just want to get in there and work, work my butt off, anything to help the team, running the ball, special teams, anything. . . . I'm not sure if it's more motivation than other people, but I have to say my drive and my desire is very high right now. I can feel the energy.

Michael Palmer

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

I made a promise to (the players) when I resigned (after the 2004 season) that if any of them had a desire to play in college, it was my job to give them that opportunity.

John McDonald

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

Their desire to fight each other outweighed the dollar percentages. That's really what's enabled this fight to take place. They want each other.

Nate Lowman

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

Miles Franklin

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

Milan Kundera

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Milarepa

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Marcel Proust

It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with out own life.

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom

Marcel Proust

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

Narendra Modi

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

Ahmed Chalabi

The elections went well because the Iraqi people have an overwhelming desire to vote. The unions of people are stronger than the handful of terrorists. And the terrorists threw everything they had into this fray, and they lost.

The enemy is ever vigilant. He's out there seeking whom he may desire. There have to be more of us.

The EU-3 is comfortable with where things are in the sense that there is a process that has been put in place, and that process should be able to lead to the desired solution.

Norman Mailer

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul

Zach Wamp

The desire for new leadership was the order of the day.

Jacques Lacan

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Jacques Maritain

The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

Henepola Gunaratana

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Heber J. Grant

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

Manny Pacquiao

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

James Joyce

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

Laura Esquivel

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Libba Bray

Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.