Desire Quotes
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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.
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.
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.
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.
I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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.
The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire.
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing.