Desire Quotes

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!

A person's level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.

The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

How do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? The honest answer is this: You won't. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

Gratitude causes us to no longer desire a different life. Instead, it causes us to make the most of the one life we already have.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any deep-seated desire to see us all wiped out.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.