Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“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)
“A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)