Desires

Famous quotes containing the word desires:

    There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, ‘The old is good.’
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 5:39.

    Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)