Desire Quotes

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?': Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you.

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

All envy is proportionate to desire.

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.