Famous quotes containing the word desires:
“While Man’s desires and aspirations stir,
He cannot choose but err.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.”
—Chinese proverb.
Confucian Analects.
“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)