Desire Quotes
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There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.
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I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.
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I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.
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If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.
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I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
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The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.
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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
