Desire Quotes

Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you.

Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

There is a deep desire to change the power structure.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

It's important to only think about what you desire, not what you fear.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.