Desire101 Quotes & Sayings

As is often the case with lawless natures, Ricardo's faith in any given individual was of a simple, unquestioning character. For man must have some support in life. — Joseph Conrad

You can't teach tall — Michael Kelley

Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography. — John Updike

She's ice and ambition and she would see you on the gallows before surrendering her ambition. Anne has dazzled him, and dazzled the court, and dazzled even you.'
'Not me.' George said gently.
'Uncle likes her best,' I said resentfully.
'He likes nobody, but he wonders how far she might go.'
'We all wonder that. And what price she's prepared to pay. Especially if it's me that pays it.'
'It's not an easy dance she's leading.' George admitted.
'I hate her,' I said simple. 'I could happily watch her die for her ambition. — Philippa Gregory

Not believing in yourself will cause you to miss out on life and waste your life. — Janice Almond

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies. — Robert James Graves

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects. — Jonathan Mayhew

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever — Edmund Burke

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark. — Laurence Sterne

A childish story take, and with a gentle hand, lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined in Memory's mystic band ... thus grew the world of Wonderland. — A.G. Howard

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. — Coretta Scott King

I don't believe there is anything like a natural golf swing. A golf swing is an unnatural thing, and it has to be developed. — Ben Hogan

Like flowers, people only reach their highest potential when their talents bloom. — Matshona Dhliwayo