Desire Quotes
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.
Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.
My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.
The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.
I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts.
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.
Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.
What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.
People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.
Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.
The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.
In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.
I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.