Desire Quotes

Conscious evolution means having the desire to evolve.

My husband has no desire to work with me. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.

Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

We are the farmers of the future. If we desire all the gifts of God, if we seek to win the Golden Crown, we can't just sit back and watch. We have to make it happen.

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water. I think the key to all is to have a laugh, have fun, and express every desire you had, as a kid.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.

When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

Your sexuality belongs to you, and think about your own desire.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.