All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
~By William Law ~
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 the course of human history, have meaning.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
~By Jack Miller ~
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
~By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt ~
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
~By Willa Cather ~
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
~By Sissela Bok ~
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
~By John Woolman ~
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
~By Thom Mayne ~
It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.
~By Picabo Street ~
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
~By John Ruskin ~
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
~By Maimonides ~
And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
~By Robert Collier ~
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
~By Robin G. Collingwood ~
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
~By Charles Tupper ~
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
~By Edgar Lee Masters ~
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
~By Diane Lane ~
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
~By Robert Fortune ~
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
~By Aristotle ~
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
~By Beverly Sills ~
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
~By Daniel Craig ~
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
~By Lord Byron ~
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
~By Nora Ephron ~
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Our visions begin with our desires.
~By Audre Lorde ~
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
~By Joy Page ~
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~By Aristotle ~
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
~By James E. Rogers ~
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
~By Amy Lowell ~
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
~By Michael Pollan ~
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
~By Rick Santorum ~
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
~By Bobby Unser ~
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
~By Mark Oliphant ~
My desire is to walk with God every day.
~By Janine Turner ~
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
~By Alfred Jodl ~
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
~By Walter Scott ~
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
~By Saint Augustine ~
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
~By Robert Plant ~
When desire dies, fear is born.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
~By Thomas Wolfe ~
Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
~By David O. McKay ~
But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
~By Xun Zi ~
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
~By Maria Montessori ~
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
~By Epicurus ~
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
~By Lou Holtz ~
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
~By Harold Pinter ~
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
~By Elihu Root ~
Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
~By Gary Coleman ~
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
~By Mike Figgis ~
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.
~By Paracelsus ~
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
~By Chanakya ~
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
~By Michael Korda ~
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
~By George Eliot ~
I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
~By Marguerite Young ~
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
~By Mario Andretti ~
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
~By Anne Boleyn ~
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