Desire Quote by Benjamin Disraeli Download Open image “Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.” — Benjamin Disraeli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Eagles Eagles wings Fame Men Wings
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles.” — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image