Desire Quotes
Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.
VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.
Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.
Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.
There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.
Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.
No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.
As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.
The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.
Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.
We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.
A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.
The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.
A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn’t deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn’t desire in all.
If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.