Desired Quotes

463 Desired quotes by 375 unique authors

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein
To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these… — Neal A. Maxwell
Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too."… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,… — Martha Graham
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve… — Paulo Coelho
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired. — Robert Frost
I desired dragons with a profound desire. — C.S. Lewis
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and… — Hermann Hesse
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way… — Giovanni Boccaccio
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely… — Leo Tolstoy
I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and… — Michael Ondaatje
I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired. — Nicholas Sparks
Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not come in the… — Marianne Williamson
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession.… — Paulo Coelho
The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as… — Jane Austen
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and… — Miguel de Cervantes
He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at… — Arthur Schopenhauer
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men,… — Virginia Woolf
For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than… — Frank Beddor
Sometimes Holly seemed like she wasn't paying attention, and other times she was gone when I went looking for her. That was when she went… — Alice Sebold
In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle,… — Richard Matheson

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