Desire Quotes

I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

When your commitment is to be loving regardless of the circumstances, there is no room for harsh words. You assert yourself not from a desire to control but from a desire to stand for who you are.

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

Love is the sun, desire - only flash.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

No one can have all he desires.

Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.

Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.