Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions, desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.Quote by Blaise Pascal about wish, force, police
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.Quote by Napoleon Hill about wish, hope
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall, the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.Quote by Francis Bacon about religion, fall, knowledge, power, man
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.Quote by Augustin de Hipona about longing
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.Quote by William Godwin about activity, real estate
A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the semester following the desired course.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.Quote by Lin Yutang about woman, fight, country, age, olderness
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.Quote by Oscar Wilde about art, magic, principle, life
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.Quote by Oscar Wilde about feelings, emotions
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for themQuote by Maya Angelou about woman, magic, man, books
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg about love
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.Quote by Irving Babbitt about progress, faith, future, people
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.Quote by Irving Babbitt about happiness, joy, work, man
I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.Quote by Francis Bacon about power, liberty, self-control, man
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.Quote by F. Murray Abraham about power, people