Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Ramakrishna

The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

Ramana Maharshi

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Sean Parker

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

Sean William Scott

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

Thomas Aquinas

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

Thomas Aquinas

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Therese of Lisieux

Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.

Leo Hindery

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

Lauren Groff

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

Lady Gaga

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

Juliana Hatfield

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

Juan Pablo Galavis

You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living.

Otto Weininger

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Ouida

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Kathy Acker

We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

Paul Tillich

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Paul de Man

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Patrick Chan

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Ovid

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Ovid

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Ovid

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Paul McCartney

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Joyce Meyer

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Katharine Hepburn

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

George MacDonald

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

George MacDonald

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

Emily Ratajkowski

Sex is normal. Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.