And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
You must be able to see yourself, with your inner eye, already in possession of the good you desire. — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
“Desires and wishes don’t lead to success. Plans and efforts do. Create a vision, chalk out an action plan, put in your… — Roopleen Copy Share Image
Three things are necessary to make every man great , every nation great : 1. Conviction of the power of goodness. 2.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you howl at the moon and swear on your own blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you… — Perry Noble Copy Share Image
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc.,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Trust yourself, your intuition, your desires and your pursuits. Don't question yourself too much. Place one foot ahead of the other and… — Barbara Hammer Copy Share Image
Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“He closed the door behind us, and led me through to the back of the shop. ‘If you don’t mind, you can… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
“No, there’d been another time yet. In my sleep, when he came into my bedroom and lay on top of me, and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the… — Venerable Bede Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“the romance of letting an individual experience of desire take precedence over a categorical one.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
I want prisons to be spartan, but humane, a place people don't have a particular desire to come back to. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes, Well, You just might find you get what you need.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield. — Ahmed Yassin Copy Share Image
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
