Desire Quotes

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

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

To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

You know, it is not God's desire to conceal but to reveal. The word revelation means "unveiling."

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

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.

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

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

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

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Appetite comes with eating.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.