Quotes of: Burning-desire Keyword

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

John Stuart Mill

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

E. O. Wilson

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.

Chris Bangle

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Mike Nichols

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Alan Gregg

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

James Allen

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Tacitus

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Salman Rushdie

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Carla Gugino

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Lou Holtz

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Charlie Chaplin

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

William R. Alger

I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.

Anna Torv

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

David Brainerd

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Ezra Taft Benson

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

Quick gratification of desires, often lead to low stratifications in life

Constance Chuks Friday

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt