Desire Quotes

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.

Art is emotion without desire.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?

Desire +Stability = Resolution, Resolution +Hard work=success

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day.

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.

There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.

You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.