Desire Quotes

• If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Writing
  • Curiosity
  • Novel

• If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

  

  Rumi
  • Healing
  • Ill
  • Let

• 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.

  

  Francis John McConnell
  • Assumption
  • Patriotism
  • Manifest

• The foundation of success is intense desire.

  

  Bill Phillips
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Foundation

• I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

  

  Alessandro Baricco
  • Desire
  • Happiness
  • Loved

• Desire is no light thing.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Light
  • Desire

• 'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Desire
  • Meditation

• 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.

  

  Seamus Dever
  • Desire
  • Force
  • Revenge

• You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Light
  • Desire
  • Moon

• Using my listener database and RadioStudy has allowed me to get into the listener's head: What they value, fear, desire, etc.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Value
  • Radio
  • Listener

• Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Important
  • Desire
  • Passion

• You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prayer

• The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Suffering
  • Gift

• Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Soul
  • Kiss
  • Vain

• If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

  

  Confucius
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Establishment

• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Wall

• My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not to be afraid to experiment, and have a sense of self-criticism and a general criticism toward the surrounding. Also, trying to make a difference between serious research and pure gag! And making as few compromises as possible toward doing things that might not be accepted by the majority of society, even if this dominant society is the one which is ruling the art world. To keep this fundamental idea, even if it's a bit trivial: to have the desire to transform the world.

  

  Daniel Buren
  • World
  • Trying
  • Art

• The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Imagine

• For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

  

  Plato
  • Man
  • Army
  • Arrangement

• The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • Desire
  • Simplicity

• I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

  

  William Shatner
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Appreciate

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

  

  William Blake
  • Fear
  • Desire

• Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or mentally but excluding anything too emotional or nurturing, currently denies men this balance. Their ability to care is seen as inappropriate for everyday use, and a lack of desire for power or promotion are seen as signs of inadequacy.

  

  Eva Cox
  • Experience
  • Care
  • Balance

• I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Slaves

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