Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Bertrand Russell

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Carl Sandburg

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

C. S. Lewis

Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.

C. S. Lewis

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

C. S. Lewis

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Dan Ariely

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Nancy Gibbs

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Peyton Manning

I guess, to tell you the truth, I've never had much of a desire to grow facial hair. I think I've managed to play quarterback just fine without a mustache.

Todd Haynes

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Caroline Knapp

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.

Aleksandar Hemon

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Alfred North Whitehead

Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.

Aldous Huxley

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

We want to be able to introduce a desired function into the proteins.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Orison Swett Marden

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

Orison Swett Marden

Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.

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?

William Kidd

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

Beau Willimon

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Beth Moore

I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

Karen Horney

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

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

Slash

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

Max Lucado

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

Omar Sy

People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.