Desire Quotes

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid people will be disappointed if I don't?

I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.

Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it.

A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.

You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.

Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

A man must earnestly want.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.