desire quotes

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

— Coco Chanel

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ”

“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”

— Aldous Huxley

“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”

“It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it. ”

“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. ”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Always desire to learn something useful. ”

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”

— Victor Hugo

“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ”

— Victor Hugo

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

— Franz Kafka

“Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. ”

— William Shakespeare

“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”

— William Shakespeare

“ Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“I’m fire on the move, a tire looking smooth. I’m not perfect but I got a desire to improve.”

“America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. ”

— George Washington Bush

“I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge. ”

— George Washington Bush

“Men freely believe that which they desire. ”

— Julius Caesar

“A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

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