Desire Quotes
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Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.
John Darnielle
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If there's one thing this team doesn't lack, it's competitiveness and a desire to win. No matter if we come off a win or come off a loss, it seems like we don't really care. We're always motivated to win.
Megan Rapinoe
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So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?
Louise Erdrich
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'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
Charles Bock
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He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.
Bill Vaughan
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If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
Neville Goddard
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I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.
Rick Perry
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I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.
George Washington
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Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.
Curtis Martin
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
Donald Miller
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
Petrarch
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Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
Lao Tzu
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I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.
Miguel de Cervantes
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My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.
H. Rider Haggard
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Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.
Jean Chatzky
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We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.
Esme Raji Codell
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If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
Thomas Hobbes
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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Norman McLaren
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Russell Banks
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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.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
William James
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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
William Shakespeare
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The outcomes are in incredible need more prominent desire.
Heraclitus
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Thus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.
Michel Foucault