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 ~
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
~By Andre Breton ~
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
~By William Blake ~
It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
~By Pete Townshend ~
My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
~By Janine Turner ~
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
~By Michel Foucault ~
It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.
~By Ernie Hudson ~
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
~By John Nelson Darby ~
For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
~By Anne Hutchinson ~
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
~By Marsha Sinetar ~
Desire is the very essence of man.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.
~By Dorothy Denning ~
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.
~By Gordon Brown ~
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
~By Billy Sheehan ~
Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.
~By Chico Hamilton ~
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
~By Irving Langmuir ~
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 ~
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~By Horace Mann ~
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
~By Alexander Pope ~
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
~By Elihu Root ~
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
~By Francis Quarles ~
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
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 ~
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
~By Brendan Francis ~
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
~By Epictetus ~
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 ~
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
~By Clive Barker ~
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
~By Dave Pelzer ~
And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.
~By Dave Winfield ~
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
We provided complete protection to witnesses - right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
~By John L. Phillips ~
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
~By Barbara Cook ~
I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
~By Townsend Harris ~
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
~By James Broughton ~
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
~By Howard Aiken ~
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
~By Lois McMaster Bujold ~
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~By Plato ~
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
~By Arthur Keith ~
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
~By Elias Hicks ~
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
~By Ryan White ~
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 ~
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.
~By Richard Neal ~
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 ~
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
~By Claud-Adrian Helvetius ~
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
~By Amir Butler ~
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
~By Rainn Wilson ~
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
~By Della Reese ~
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
~By Will Durant ~
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
A good education should leave much to be desired.
~By Alan Gregg ~
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
~By John McDonald ~
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 ~
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
~By Channing Pollock ~
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
~By Victor Hugo ~
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
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 ~
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
~By Epictetus ~
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
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