Desire Quotes

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

I served. And now it's time for the new man to serve. I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

To want is more than to attain.

A vice is a failure of desire

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah (Palen)'s doing, (but) I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell them, "Painters must speak through paint not through words."

When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants.

I've always had that overweening desire to be liked by the audience.

Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love

I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out and preserve his own way.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices.

The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.

Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.