Top 1200 Wants And Desires Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

Mark Udall wants to run a social issues campaign. He definitely wants to run as the social issues candidate.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.

Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.

I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires.

Of course making money and being able to live life the way one desires is important.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.