Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says. — David J. Lieberman Copy Share Image
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect. — Marilyn Yalom Copy Share Image
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire. — Mike Murdock Copy Share Image
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill,… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better… — Edward Burne-Jones Copy Share Image
Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“...understood that a man can dream big dreams on small pillows. I've kept going, intoxicated with desire and the hope that drives… — Bergsveinn Birgisson Copy Share Image
When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“There is a deep and natural craving in the human heart that can be satisfied nowhere except in God. Our being in… — Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“Frequently, and not only in the popular usage, sadomasochism is confounded with love. Masochistic phenomena, especially, are looked upon as expressions of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Life is lived in the present. any dream put off till tomorrow may never be achievable. — Ore Abayomi Copy Share Image
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to. — Puff Daddy Copy Share Image
“I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. — Jacques de Lacretelle Copy Share Image
I'm tryna learn somethin new. I'm tryna surround myself with people that inspire me or at least inquire similar desires. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me. — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall — Drake Copy Share Image
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image