Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was not about our desire not to have him as part of our organization for a long, long time,

Charles Eastman

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Ariel Sharon

We desire a life living side-by-side, in understanding and peace. We have no desire to rule over you. We have no desire to run your affairs.

Jane Addams

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

Jane Austen

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

Jane Austen

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

Janine Turner

My desire is to walk with God every day.

Janet Guthrie

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Jane Wagner

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

Bryant H. McGill

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Alain de Botton

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

Alain de Botton

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Blaise Pascal

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Eckhart Tolle

Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

Elihu Root

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

Edward R. Murrow

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

Edward Snowden

As a general rule, US-based multinationals should not be trusted until they prove otherwise. This is sad, because they have the capability to provide the best and most trusted services in the world if they actually desire to do so.

Brian Molko

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

Baruch Spinoza

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

Baruch Spinoza

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

Baruch Spinoza

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Desire creates its own object.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

Benjamin Graham

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

Brian Tracy

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

Brian Tracy

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Brian Herbert

Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.

Brendan Fraser

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Juvenal

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

Juvenal

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.