Desire Quotes
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
~Christopher Lasch
~Christopher Lasch
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
~Sivananda
~Sivananda
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
~Elizabeth Gaskell
~Elizabeth Gaskell
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
~Allen Tate
~Allen Tate
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
~Anne Boleyn
~Anne Boleyn
Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.
~Lisa Leslie
~Lisa Leslie
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
~Mike Figgis
~Mike Figgis
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
~James Weldon Johnson
~James Weldon Johnson
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
~Samuel Alexander
~Samuel Alexander
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.
~Joshua Jackson
~Joshua Jackson
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
~Marcus Fabius Quintilian
~Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
~Marguerite Duras
~Marguerite Duras
I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.
~Ken Hensley
~Ken Hensley
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
~Rudyard Kipling
~Rudyard Kipling
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
~Karen Allen
~Karen Allen
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
~Gary Coleman
~Gary Coleman
I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.
~Jupiter Hammon
~Jupiter Hammon
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.
~Ray Dolby
~Ray Dolby
I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
~Max Weinberg
~Max Weinberg
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
~Mortimer Adler
~Mortimer Adler
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
~Dave Pelzer
~Dave Pelzer
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
~Hugh Prather
~Hugh Prather
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.
~Francis Quarles
~Francis Quarles
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
~C. S. Lewis
~C. S. Lewis
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
~Brendan Francis
~Brendan Francis
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
~Paulo Coelho
~Paulo Coelho
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
~Cicero
~Cicero
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
~Soren Kierkegaard
~Soren Kierkegaard
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
~Francis Bacon
~Francis Bacon
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
~Heraclitus
~Heraclitus
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
~Noah Webster
~Noah Webster
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
~John Osborne
~John Osborne
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
~Ian Hart
~Ian Hart
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~Rebecca West
~Rebecca West
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
~Judith Viorst
~Judith Viorst
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
~Alexander Graham Bell
~Alexander Graham Bell
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
~Henry George
~Henry George
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
~Edgar Watson Howe
~Edgar Watson Howe
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
~Paul de Man
~Paul de Man
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
~Fran Lebowitz
~Fran Lebowitz
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~Lech Walesa
~Lech Walesa
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.
~Comte de Lautreamont
~Comte de Lautreamont
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