Desire Quotes - Page 63

God's desire is not for us to turn our churches and Christian gatherings into hideouts from the world. Rather, they're meant to be places where we become equipped and fortified to minister out in the world.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.