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)
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)