Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heav’n before our eyes.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)