Desire Quotes

Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

The only way to achieve your desires and dreams is to ACT ON THEM. The greater you trust in yourself, your beliefs, and your thoughts, the more action you will take.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

We should awaken feelings of respect for each other. In other words, awaken the desire to kill selfishness.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.

Music is also supposed to be fun. On this record, (titled 'III'), I really had the desire again to jump back into some good-time, fun-loving songs.

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.

When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.

My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.

Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.