Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“No mother is so wicked but she desires to have good children.”
—Italian Proverb.
“Too many desires harm the mind; to desire much money harms the body.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)