Desire Quotes

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.

I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.

He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.

I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

My desire is to walk with God every day.