Desire Quotes

Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love

Love for me is the most sophisticated form that one can give for his desire, may be the only faith is remarkable on human being.

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.

Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.

I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.