Desire Quotes

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward… — Walt Whitman
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or… — Bernard Berenson
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. — Jean de La Fontaine
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition. — Albert Einstein
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. — Thorstein Veblen
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. — Jean Giraudoux
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy. — William Hazlitt
Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement. — William Penn
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. — Anton Chekhov
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel de Montaigne
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in… — John Milton
Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the… — George W. Bush
It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged,… — George W. Bush
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and… — Ronald Reagan
A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for… — Eric Hoffer
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. — Martin Luther

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