And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire… — Chaz Bufe Copy Share Image
“This happiness rendered absurd men's desire to dominate, to kill, to possess, thought Volsky. For neither Mila nor he possessed anything. Their… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Did you know you can take your bus anywhere you want to go? Say yes three times with me. Yes, yes, yes.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
It was never my dream to be famous. I didn’t start acting to be a movie star. I started in the theater… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
“Gautama’s insight was that no matter what the mind experiences, it usually reacts with craving, and craving always involves dissatisfaction. When the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose… — Jerry Thomas Copy Share Image
I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that… — Billy Zane Copy Share Image
If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial,… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
The desire to transcend one's own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“He smiles shyly at Leah. Aged ten he had a smile! Nathan Bogle: the very definition of desire for girls who had… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“Advertisement! A device for forcing the unwilling into line. Did it matter to a ground vehicle manufacturer whether a given individual felt… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image