Desire Quotes
-
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
-
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
-
Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.
-
Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
-
I've become immune to desire; I snip the danger of wanting in the bud.
-
Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.
-
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
-
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.
-
Like so many children who read a lot, I begin to declare rather early that I want to be a writer. But this is the only way I have of articulating a different desire, a desire that I can’t yet understand. What I really want is to be transported into a space in which everything is as distinct, complete, and intelligible as in the stories I read. And, like most children, I’m a literalist through and through. I want reality to imitate books – and books to capture the essence of reality. I love words insofar as they correspond to the world, insofar as they give it to me in a heightened form. The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become – and such lucidity is a form of joy. Sometimes, when I find a new expression, I roll it on the tongue, as if shaping it in my mouth gave birth to a new shape in the world. Nothing fully exists until it is articulated.
-
The relationship between looking and desire is really about the promise of revelation - the hope that the subject of your gaze will reveal something to you - whether or not that revelation is prurient. And that's really what eroticism is - the anticipation of disclosure.
-
Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he's been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would keep forever in some small part of his soul.
-
I don't see anything changing about our desire for quality and fuel efficiency and safety and smart design, no matter what the vehicle size.
-
In the calm violence of your being, desire.
-
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
-
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
-
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
-
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
-
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.
-
I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.
-
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
-
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.
-
It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.
-
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
-
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.
