universal desire Quotes

The yearnings of freedom are not a Western import; they are a human instinct.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

I don't care who is next. I want anybody. I want everybody.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.

My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

It's a universal desire to love and to be loved and, despite trying circumstances, to still fight for the good.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.

The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.

Why does every society seem to want to make music when it often seems like kind of a frill.

God has made all men to be happy.

... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.

You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.

[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs are based on assumptions that don't always hold true in many countries, in many cultures.