I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I looked with longing at honors, wealth, and marriage, and you laughed at me. Amidst such desires I suffered most bitter troubles,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
There's a popular saying that the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Desire and innovation will trump policy, the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is the US government's desire for the Iraqi people to lead themselves, not for any outside power to be the leadership… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
People who are hungry don't have the heart to think about others. Sometimes they can't even care for their own family. Hunger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I knew all along that, if the two of us ever got to this point, we’d be a cyclone. A full immersion… — A. Wilding Wells Copy Share Image
Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Often sugar cravings are linked to emotional needs; when we learn to identify those emotions and when they arise, we can go… — Alejandro Junger Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts,… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are… — Iris Smyles Copy Share Image
Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is easy to change a positive thought into a negative one and a negative one into a positive one. But only… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Venus's life story across 5,000 years reminds us not to trivialise the power of desire: the ancients were right to never underestimate… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Some people are wish-blocked, knowing neither what they feel nor what they want. Without opinions, without impulses, without inclinations, they become parasites… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Those Who Are Slaves Of Desire, Are Slaves To The Whole World. But To Those For Whom Desire Itself Is A Slave,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
