Desire Quotes

There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

Commitment is different in males and females. In females it is a desire to get married and raise a family. In males it means not picking up other women while out with one's girlfriend.

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who sincerely desires to receive that revelation.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.

I'm interested in loving, beautiful, sexy images... I also want the images to be a turn on, create an adrenaline high, a rush of desire so intense that the act of looking is sexual.

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

The point of vision and desire are the same.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Always be aware that you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and tranquil life you desire.

O, she is the antidote to desire.

While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.