Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The forceful activating impulse of wrong desire is the greatest enemy to the happiness of man. Roam in the world as a… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart,… — Sandor Marai Copy Share Image
“You have to be firm, persistent, passionate, and driven by the idea and have a strong desire to bring your product to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we… — Costa Ronin Copy Share Image
Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure. — Jean Charest Copy Share Image
We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence. — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“You need persistence in order to maintain the reality that you desire.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less… — George Muller Copy Share Image
“Desires intellectual, social etc., but they all be, Soul‟s longing through mind and senses activity. - 40 -” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator.… — Tyrone Willingham Copy Share Image