Desire Quotes

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

What unites all beings is their desire for happiness.

Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.

The intensity of our desire to share the gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion.

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.

Perhaps the singular positive of [Donald] Trump's desire to improve the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and Russia will lead to achieving progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

The resources of heaven are ready and waiting for the people of God who desire to make much of him in this world

Who God is and what Christ did have huge implications for who we are personally and what we desire sexually.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching." "not catching enough

We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.