Desire Quotes - Page 36

• A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Party, Organization

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 75, 1991.

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• What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

  Christina Romer

  Law, Wish

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• It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

  William P. Young

  Children, Needs, Purpose

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• That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Father, Believe

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• Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Creator, Destroyers

  "Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart". Book by Ram Dass, 2010.

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• who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

  Paul the Apostle

  People, Saved

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• Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.

  Rhonda Britten

  Caring, Thinking, Order

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.33, Penguin

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• Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.

  Rhonda Britten

  Claims, Ability, Components

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• Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Men, Contemporary Fiction

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Ambition, World, Lows

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.29

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• ... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Disappointment, Failing, Form

  Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) (1839). “The idler in Italy”, p.287

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• All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Envy, Mind

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• Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

  Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

  Men, Firsts, Privilege

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• Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Art, Technique

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• Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.

  Catherine Doherty

  Faith, Believe, Moving

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• When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Heart, Work Out, Way

  Iyanla Vanzant (2010). “Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through”, p.131, Hay House, Inc

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• The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Differences, Community

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• The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Powerful, Men, Feelings

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• If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

  Walter Raleigh

  Art, Giving, Swim

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.565

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• Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Should, Delusion, Objects

  Francois duc de La-Rochefoucauld (1828). “Maximes Et Reflexions Morales Traduites en Grec Moderne Par Wladimir Brunet; Avec Une Traduction Anglaise en Regard”, p.229

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• The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Done, Riches, Merit

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• We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wish, Want, Should

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• The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Men, Thinking

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• When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Gratitude, Kindness

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