Desires

Famous quotes containing the word desires:

    It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
    Why, that’s the lady, all the world desires her.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
    Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)