Top 75 Desired Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Desired Quotes from famous people such as Romeo Dallaire, Robert J. Shiller, Anne Applebaum, Dag Hammarskjold, Bret Stephens, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mi

Death became a desired option. I hoped I would hit a mine or run into an ambush and just end it all. I think some part of me wanted to join the legions of the dead, whom I had failed.
Romeo Dallaire
The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.
Robert J. Shiller
Clearly, the qualities Poles admire in a secretary of state – foreign languages, diplomatic experience, even sense of humor – are emphatically not those desired in a head of state: So be it.
Anne Applebaum
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Dag Hammarskjold
Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you’d probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good – only the execution often left something to be desired.
Bret Stephens
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.
Niklaus Wirth
Dec’s punctuality leaves a lot to be desired.
Ant McPartlin
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
My family is so loving and so encouraging. Ever since I was little, it was implanted in my head – and my sister’s and my brother’s – that we could do anything our heart desired to do, and to not be afraid.
Josie Totah
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Peter Abrahams
Sometimes I wake up, and I’m like, ‘Don’t dream it. Be it. You’re really living the dream. You are everything you’ve ever desired or set out to be. You’re doing it.’
Alyssa Edwards
I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
Ellen G. White
Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.
Robert Fortune
I’ve kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I’m filled with rage. It’s so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.
John Grant
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Abdus Salam
I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
Vijender Singh
I like Shakespeare, but it’s not my bread and butter. It’s not what fires me up about acting at all.A lot of the ingenue parts leave a lot to be desired, in my opinion.
Phoebe Fox
I feel many times we do all the hard work, but in the absence of smart work, we do not get the desired results.
Sandeep Singh
When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It’s the best thing that can happen.
Gaspar Noe
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler
I have a real weakness for Generation One Transformers. Only Generation One. I loved them as a kid, and I will, when I have the money, search occasionally for the toys that I could not afford but deeply desired as a child.
Ben Peek
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana
While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education… I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.
Ellen G. White
I get great satisfaction nowadays when people come up and say ‘I used to hate you when I was little’ or ‘you used to make me mad’ – well that was the desired effect.
William Regal
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
Daniel Craig
Star voices are not cheap. So if they’re not bringing the desired result for the studio, why not pay the VO artists better.
Rajesh Khattar
After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world’s central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.
Ben Bernanke
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus
Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn f

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.
Ellen Key
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
Nancy Gibbs
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn’t fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
Neil MacGregor
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Don’t use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.
Bo Sanchez
My performing and my singing leave much to be desired, but having other people record my songs is the most flattering thing that can happen.
J. J. Cale
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in ‘Almost Famous,’ in my life, and there just wasn’t. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.
Mike Birbiglia
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull
Homelessness is the actor’s fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
Edwin Booth
Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.
Himesh Reshammiya
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
Marilyn Monroe
We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.
Philippe Perrin
He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.
Christopher Love
I’ve got a feeling that with the best coppers – and in fact the best people in any field of work – what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.
Ken Stott
Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.
Townsend Harris
Let’s face it: fitness is boring. But it’s critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There’s no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.
Harbhajan Singh
The political outcome that is desired is one which makes any government sensitive to the pulse of the people and their welfare, allowing any ruling party to govern without gridlock while promoting the political openness that so many of us yearn for in Singapore.
Pritam Singh
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The state-of-the-art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting’s brain organizes music. That’s important because at the heart of great musicianship is the ability to manipulate in one’s mind rich representation of the desired soundscape.
Daniel Levitin
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.
Dennis Ross
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
Joseph Butler
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
Harold Pinter