Desire Quotes

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Confidence

• The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Ignorance

• The gratification of desire is not happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Desire
  • Happiness

• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art
  • History
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Desire

• It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya… And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai … He had been driven out of that Eden…because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Life
  • Couple
  • Breakfast

• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

  

  Dave Pelzer
  • People
  • Strong
  • Understanding

• ..I have never managed to grasp what exactly 'pataphysics' consisted of; but in short what I have always seen in it is a desire to disconnect philosophy from the discipline of logic, and to admit incoherence as a legitimate component of it. comment on visiting frequently the Collège de 'Pataphysique'

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Desire
  • Discipline
  • Logic

• There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Drink
  • Dust
  • Dry

• I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.

  

  Armin Zoggeler
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• A Path Appears is an insightful book focused on how individuals can contribute to positive change and the remarkable people behind the organizations that make it happen. The authors' desire to motivate people to support good causes, learn about the situation in other countries, and find the best way to help their fellow men and women is inspiring.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Travel

• I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Records
  • Interested
  • Wheel

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Jump

• It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Good
  • Football

• There are men who do exist who have no desire for women. That doesn't necessarily mean they have an interest in men, but scholars often interpret it to mean those men who don't have sexual knowledge.

  

  Daayiee Abdullah
  • Men
  • Women
  • Knowledge

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