More quotations tagged with “desire”
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
—Antonio Porchia
Happy and content one day, / ambition and desire eat you alive the next. / It's always been this way. Back and forth, / back and forth. That's the way it goes.
—David Budbill
There's an African proverb: "When death finds you, may it find you alive." Alive means living your own damn life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.
—Michael Meade
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
—Niccolo Machiavelli
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
—Thomas Henry Huxley