Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoe Kravitz

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

We have a spirit of working together, and we have a passion for cars. And we also have a great desire to see the Ford name in the forefront of world transportation.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Donatella Versace

I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

John Stevens

We recognize the important role that public worship plays in many communities, as well as the sincere desire to include public prayer as a part of various occasions so as to mark those occasions' significance,

There must be other races out there, watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field of the sky. Do they desire us as we desire them?

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

Typically when you have people with sudden wealth, they need a long-term plan to protect it from themselves. There's this initial pent-up desire to spend. Cars, houses, and gifts of money for so-and-so. Everyone is going to be your friend.

A. S. Byatt

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

A. A. Milne

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

We forced them to play the full length of the floor for four quarters. That was our desire - to make it a full-court game.

We've known about his desire to move on well before Panorama was broadcast. He at no time offered to resign prior to this.

David A. Bednar

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.

Cormac McCarthy

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

Cormac McCarthy

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

Coventry Patmore

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Brian Behlendorf

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

Amy Bloom

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be connected, informed and entertained in transit.

Mark Twain

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure

There is a desire to recycle as much as possible, but there is also a strong drive to do this as soon as possible.

Tom Daschle

There is a desire to keep talking and find a way around this impasse, ... I think the five people in the room all expressed a desire to keep talking, and that is what we're doing.

We're trying to do everything we can to keep him going. He's got a real strong desire to play, and he's played in pain the last month or two.

Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

Why is it so universally upsetting for men to have women around them on anything like a footing of equality? Why is the resentment as deep-seated as ever, even if it is now underground? Individual men may have no desire whatever to put women in their

This trade is governed by the desire of people in the West to purchase these items; it's similar to the drug trade,

Charles Djou

We can't seem to get it right because of legal mechanics. We have the money; we have the desire.

We have been contacted by hourly employees who have expressed a desire to return to work.

Karel Reisz

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.