Drew Bledsoe Quotes

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

Drew Bledsoe

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Energy
  • Faith
  • Desire

• When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • People
  • Me
  • Desire

• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Desire
  • Pressure

• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Problem
  • Cold
  • Sound

• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Safety

• When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Desire
  • Do The Right Thing

• What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Me
  • Desire

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • God
  • Death
  • Desire

• I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Time
  • Great
  • Desire

• Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

  

  Vance Havner
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Christian

• Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Gift
  • Public
  • Manager

• No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Needs
  • Shows

• I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • First
  • Eating

• The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

  

  Drew Bledsoe
  • Desire