Desire Quotes - page 16

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. (Lin Yutang)
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership 'til they have lost the desire to lead anyone. View quote
William Beveridge
All human activity is prompted by desire. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things. View quote
Bertrand Russell
In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. View quote
Albert Camus
Generally, the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory. (Ulysses S. Grant)
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible. View quote
F. H. Bradley
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life. View quote
Walter Pater
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur. View quote
Kenneth Waltz
Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally - and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead. View quote
Bion of Borysthenes
When desire dies, fear is born. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself. (Jane Austen)
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. View quote
Publilius Syrus
It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature sons and daughters who will in My name exercise dominion over the earth and subdue Satan, the unruly, the rebellious. Take back My world from those who would loot it and abuse it. Rule as I would rule. View quote
Pat Robertson
While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. View quote
Jon Krakauer