Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Jee-woon

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.

Kate Bush

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

We're at about where I thought we would be, this is a good group of guys. They work hard, put in a lot of effort; they have a lot of motivation and desire to be better.

The reality is that an inmate can get out if they so desire, but what keeps them there is the possibility of sanctions.

Therese of Lisieux

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

Richard G. Scott

But what about you? Have you prayed about your own ancestors’ work? Set aside those things in your life that don’t really matter. Decide to do something that will have eternal consequences. Perhaps you have been prompted to look for ancestors but feel you are not a genealogist. Can you see that you don’t have to be anymore? It all begins with love and a sincere desire to help those beyond the veil who can’t help themselves. Check around. There will be someone in your area who can help you have success.

Barbara Tuchman

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Anton Chekhov

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Billy Connolly

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Brigitte Bardot

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Barbara Cook

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

Antonio Porchia

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Brother Lawrence

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

Brother Lawrence

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Brother Lawrence

To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?

Edmund Hillary

In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the desire to agree with many, many things. So I used to get beaten quite frequently and I more or less accepted it as part of life.

Deborah Harkness

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Deepak Chopra

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

Deepak Chopra

Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add new information, and manifest whatever we want, need, or desire. Abundance is unlimited, unbounded, and always available.

Deepak Chopra

Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation.

Deepak Chopra

Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.

Edgar Cayce

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

Eliza Haywood

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Benjamin Franklin

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Barbara Sher

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

Ayn Rand

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Ayn Rand

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

Ayn Rand

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.