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)
“No mother is so wicked but she desires to have good children.”
—Italian Proverb.
“Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)