Desire - Love Quotes

Sophocles

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Eliot, George

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.