Common Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Desire Qualified
The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Some people need what you have, while some need what you don't; you truly can not fulfill the human desire. — Voeun Tivea Copy Share Image
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them. — Della Reese Copy Share Image
Its true that we dont always get what we desire, but another thing is this that we too desire for the things we cant… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Most people don't know how to differentiate what they need from what they want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
