Desired Quotes

463 Desired quotes by 375 unique authors

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired. — Roger von Oech
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. — Robert Frost
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a… — Martha Graham
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. — Epictetus
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. — Epicurus
What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort… — Tom Felton
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and… — Dag Hammarskjold
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the… — Naveen Jain
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. — Franz Kafka
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to… — Immanuel Kant
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of… — Thabo Mbeki
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired. — Marilyn Monroe
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them… — James Otis
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. — Paracelsus
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,… — Bertrand Russell
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. — George Santayana
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when… — Walter Scott
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. — William Shakespeare
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the… — Casey Stengel
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning… — Tom Stoppard
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every… — Ellen G. White
I had often sought for the peace there is in Christ, but I could not seem to find the freedom I desired. A terrible sadness… — Ellen G. White
This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but… — Kim Edwards
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not… — Margaret Sanger

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