Desire Quotes
There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.
I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.
The difference between a confident person and an unconfident person is simply that the confident person acts on their ambitions and desires and doesn’t let fear of failure stop them.
If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.
The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may positively change the life or outlook of the receiver for the day!
Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song.
I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.
Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away
I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.
I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game.
I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.
The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
To be constantly without desire is the way to have a vision of the mystery of heaven and earth. For constantly to have desire is the means by which their limitations are seen.
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.
I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
Roland, love means not being afraid to let yourself go, trusting that I will desire everything you have to offer. -Rosaline (Roland's love)
His eyes burned violet - not with anger but with intense desire. The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.
There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express
Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.
She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.