A Quote by Carlos Fuentes

Memory is satisfied desire.

Carlos Fuentes

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Desire Memory Satisfied

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Carlos Fuentes
Mexican - Novelist
November 11, 1929 - May 15, 2012

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

Samuel Johnson

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

Deepak Chopra

Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

Barack Obama

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

William Butler Yeats

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

Elie Wiesel

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

Vikas Swarup

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Herbert V. Prochnow

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

Martin Scorsese

I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.

Smith Wigglesworth

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

Saint Augustine

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

Kim Reynolds

I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.