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"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul."
Smiley Blanton
"If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand."
J. F. Boyse
"That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."
Ray Douglas Bradbury
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
F. H. Bradley
"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."
J. Brotherton
"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person."
Ralph Bunche
"A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web."
Karen Burka
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."
William Seward Burroughs
"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule."
Samuel Butler
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
Charles Roberts Buxton
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."
George Gordon Byron
"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."
Dale Carnegie
"I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be."
Ainsley Carry
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed."
Confucius
"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."
Miles Dewey Davis
"What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates."
Marquis de Sade
"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater."
Marquis de Sade
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."
Rene Descartes
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