Aristotle Quotes, Desire Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Desire Quotes , Would Be Quotes

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death Quotes , Desire Quotes

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Saying Goodbye Quotes , Desire Quotes

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Desire Quotes

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Moving Quotes , Desire Quotes

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Southern Quotes , Desire Quotes

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Long Quotes , Desire Quotes

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Desire Quotes

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Love Quotes , Desire Quotes

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Desire Quotes

I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Helping Others Quotes , Desire Quotes

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Desire Quotes

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Desire Quotes

I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Helping Others Quotes , Desire Quotes

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adelia Prado Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Desire Quotes

There is no greater crime than desire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Taoism Quotes , Desire Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Desire Quotes , Dames Quotes

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Real Quotes , Desire Quotes

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Military Quotes , Desire Quotes

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Desire Quotes