Desire Quotes

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a most sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.

Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?" "No thanks," said Nick. "We've got MTV.

If the desires are cut off one by one, then there is peace. When the desires go one by one then there is die-mind. Then there is peace of mind.

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.

Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

You were overwhelmed by my desire? What planet are you from? (Geary to Arik) Moronia. Every full moon they teleport the Morons to earth and let them loose. Consider this your first encounter. (Solin)

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

Of course, among the confused motives that spurred me toward being a writer was also the desire to look, to be above the trees and rooftops, beyond the Malaysian horizon that circumscribed my life.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.

The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations.

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

Alex [Kendrick] and I started out the whole film-making journey as a desire to reach people for Christ and try to impact their lives for him.

What happens when you lose your heart's desire?

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Desire has no history.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.