Desire Quotes

Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.

Desire can make anything into a god.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action.

The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.

I certainly felt the desire to reach as many people as I could; I wanted to make the most of this opportunity, sure. But I wouldn't call it pressure the way we're thinking of it now.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

Rebuttals never alter desire.

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

I am fortunate in that I am motivated to do what I do by just a really goofy desire to do it. Maybe I have demons that are hidden away someplace, and I'll discover mine someday.

Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.

Love ans desire aren't the same

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.