Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Nikola Tesla

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

Ann Marie Aguilar

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

Adam Carolla

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

Amy Carmichael

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Alphonse de Lamartine

We're involved in racing because there's that element of competition. But there's that desire to push yourself beyond the natural comfort zone and the boundaries that are preset if you like, and to be better than the rest.

Allan McNish

You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things.

Agu Jaachynma N.E.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Alexander Pope

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Ayn Rand

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Beau Willimon

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

Sri Chinmoy

Our peace comes from remembering our wholeness and that the end of desire is the beginning of a life filled with Light.

Life

Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

Love

People are like mugs with different handles. Some can be held by their emotions; others by their logic, passions, desires or dreams

Life

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.

Love

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Victor Manan Nyambala

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

Zaha Hadid

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

Emmanuelle Beart