Desire Quotes
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.
If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.
A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my life, if I let him. Mercy
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.
Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.
You have always fought against your dreams, and 'I want' has never even shown its face. It was always drowned out by 'I must' or 'I hope' or 'I need...'
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.
In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires...
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
