Top 650 Desired Quotes & Sayings

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

Dec's punctuality leaves a lot to be desired.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

I was born on Delaware Street. We have never desired another home.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

Man desires, woman is desired.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.

All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)

There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Influence is the ability to move a person to a desired action.

...a great good is worth being long desired.

We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life.

I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.

When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our being.

Always focus on the outcome of a desired act.

When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she'd certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

I'm very blessed to have a husband who appreciates me. Women feel sexy from feeling attractive and desired. Men feel sexy from having sex. If you can strike a balance where the man is having sex a lot and the woman is feeling desired enough to have sex, then you've figured out the secret to a marriage that's alive.

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.