Desire Quotes - page 18

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man. (Democritus)
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. View quote
Ivan Pavlov
Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? View quote
J. M. Coetzee
He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal. View quote
Rumi
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top. View quote
Rumi
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen." View quote
Byron Katie
When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. View quote
Theodor Herzl
I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences... View quote
Oliver Cromwell
Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name. (Ignatius of Loyola)
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former. View quote
Karl Kraus
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy. View quote
Emily Dickinson
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. View quote
Anne Brontë
Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too. View quote
Anne Brontë
The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities. View quote
Derren Brown
I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire. View quote
Robin Morgan
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success. View quote
Edward Bellamy
The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet. View quote
Jacques Maritain
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. (Swami Sivananda)
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true. View quote
Herbert Read
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. View quote
Edgar Degas
No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct. View quote
Robert Butts