Desire Quotes

When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires.

There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Potential counts for a lot; but heart, desire, and will can take a dream from potential to possible.

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire?

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.

Greed, the desire to incorporate, is magnified and fed back to produce the pretan realms, just as hate creates the hells.

All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

At the foundation of every life is one central desire: to make a difference that you lived.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.

I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.

Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you're doing what you want to do is probably when you'll be doing your best. And pray it is not a hobby so they'll pay you for it.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

My primary objective, my desire would be to see the Democrat Party get shellacked in every election, to never see the Democrats ever win one again, as currently constituted.

You might have some people that disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America.

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

I have a desire to help animals, the question of whether it makes financial sense, it's my money and I get to do what I want with it. It's an expensive hobby I picked up at the end of my life.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.