Desire Quote by Gerald Stanley Lee Download Open image “A vice is a failure of desire” — Gerald Stanley Lee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Failure Inspirational Vices
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking. — Gerald Stanley Lee 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… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
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