Famous quotes containing the word desiring:
“It is the nature of our desires to be boundless, and many live only to gratify them. But for this purpose the first object is, not so much to establish an equality of fortune, as to prevent those who are of a good disposition from desiring more than their own, and those who are of a bad one from being able to acquire it; and this may be done if they are kept in an inferior station, and not exposed to injustice.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)