Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

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

William Shakespeare

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

Antonio Tabucchi

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Ravi Zacharias

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Virgil

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

Elias Hicks

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H. L. Mencken

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Matt Smith

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

Deepak Chopra

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Hanif Kureishi

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

John Garamendi

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Marcus Garvey

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Rutherford B. Hayes

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Brian Tracy

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

John Hawley

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

Maajid Nawaz

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

William Griffith Wilson

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

Gustav Stresemann

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

Michael Arad