Desired Quotes

463 Desired quotes by 375 unique authors

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out… — Hanif Kureishi
What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just… — Dave Barry
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of… — Man Ray
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very… — Rem Koolhaas
I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit… — Winston Churchill
Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an… — Seth Klarman
The Coach is the antidote to the Victim's Rescuer in the DDT...Mainly, a Coach supports, assists, and facilitates the Creator in manifesting a desired outcome.… — David Emerald Womeldorff
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired. — Harold Pinter
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As… — Anatoly Karpov
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught. — Torquato Tasso
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along… — Harry A. Blackmun
Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because… — Samuel Johnson
All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and… — Stephen Covey
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. — John P. Kotter
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit. — Horace
That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people… — Stephen Samuel Wise
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the… — John Keats
The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for… — George Bernard Shaw
For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was… — Aldous Huxley
And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done, and naught more… — Gautama Buddha
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in… — Plato
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired. They certainly did… — Teresa of Avila
The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time… — Plato
Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending… — Fred Reed

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