Desire Quotes

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

Everything I desire is within me.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

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.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

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

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

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 a fierce desire to paint colour.

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

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

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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

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.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?