Desire Quotes
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“The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.”
Quote by -Heraclitus
“We make Him too small in our eyes and expect much less than He desires to give.”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
Turn your desire to stone. Quench your appetites. Keep your mind centered on itself.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn’t desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
Quote by -Albert Camus
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
Quote by -Socrates
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
Quote by -Daniel Craig
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
Quote by -John Milton
"Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world"
Quote by -Sophocles
"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect."
Quote by -Aleister Crowley
"She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that."
Quote by -Alexander McCall Smith
"There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say."
Quote by -Alexander McCall Smith
"I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down."
Quote by -Alexander McCall Smith
"My logisticians are a humorless lot ... they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay."
Quote by -Alexander The Great
"My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men"
Quote by -Bryce Courtenay
"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable."
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"Sexual selection will also be largely dominated by natural selection tending towards the general welfare of the species."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work."
Quote by -Dallas Willard
"And if you are already flying upside down and don’t know it, your cleverness will do you little good."
Quote by -Dallas Willard
"Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to."
Quote by -Dan Brown
"Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?"
Quote by -Dan Brown
"Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end."
Quote by -Deborah Moggach
"When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha."
Quote by -Deepak Chopra