Famous Quotes
887 Quotations with Desire.
- 101. Marcel Proust: Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
- 102. William Blake: Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
- 103. Sir William Osler: The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes ...
- 104. Eric Hoffer: People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. Th ...
- 105. Rene Descartes: Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every ...
- 106. Anne Bronte: It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for the ...
- 107. Walt Whitman: The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
- 108. Belva Plain: How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- 109. Rebecca West: Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fert ...
- 110. Ayn Rand: Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but ra ...
- 111. E. B. White: If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challe ...
- 112. James Lileks: I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything t ...
- 113. Muhammad Ali: Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep ...
- 114. Milan Kundera: Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. W ...
- 115. Mark Twain: A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- 116. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and need ...
- 117. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider: What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? ...
- 118. Tara Nott: You can absolutely do anything if you have the belief and the desire. You're goi ...
- 119. Maria Mitchell: We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the ...
- 120. Marquis de Sade: Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our ...