The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
~By Norman Douglas ~
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
~By Otto Dix ~
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
~By Karl Kraus ~
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
~By Dolley Madison ~
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
~By John Lasseter ~
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
~By Marcel Proust ~
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
~By Ella Maillart ~
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 ~
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 ~
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
~By Ben Stiller ~
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
~By Charles Alexander Eastman ~
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
~By James Truslow Adams ~
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
~By Jane Smiley ~
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
~By Charles Bent ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
~By Robert Collier ~
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
~By Melissa Bean ~
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
~By William Blake ~
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
~By Hugh Prather ~
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~By Plato ~
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
~By John Cleese ~
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
~By Michael Pollan ~
Always desire to learn something useful.
~By Sophocles ~
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
~By Franz Kafka ~
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
~By Elizabeth Gaskell ~
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
~By Gary Lucas ~
My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
~By Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ~
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
~By Francesca Annis ~
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 ~
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
~By Karen Allen ~
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
~By Will McDonough ~
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
~By Brian Tracy ~
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
~By Epictetus ~
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
~By Don Zimmer ~
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
~By Dick Gephardt ~
The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
~By Sallust ~
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
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 courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
~By Rebecca West ~
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
~By William Vickrey ~
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 ~
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
~By Arthur Keith ~
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
~By Orlando Jones ~
My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
~By Donna Leon ~
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 ~
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
~By Sitting Bull ~
Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
~By William Law ~
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 ~
Desire creates the power.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
~By Jeff Buckley ~
Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
~By Walter Scott ~
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
~By Richard Wagner ~
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
~By James Longstreet ~
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
~By Lewis J. Bates ~
But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
~By Terry Savage ~
Desire is the very essence of man.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
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 ~
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
~By Carl Andre ~
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