Desire Quotes
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Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
Gavin O'Connor
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
Maajid Nawaz
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I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
Johnny Ball
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I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
Dennis Rodman
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna
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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.
Ava DuVernay
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
Hale Irwin
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.
Rachel Sklar
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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.
Plato
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The desire for freedom and equilibrium (harmony) is inherent in man (due to the universal in him).
Piet Mondrian
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How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
Victor Ponta
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I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
Paul Thomas Anderson
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Federica Montseny
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I want to inspire people to desire to see the praise that comes from the one and only true God. Above all else. That is what God has laid on my heart and the message that I bring to you.
R. T. Kendall
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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
J. M. Coetzee
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The most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.
Georgia Harkness
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.
Landon Donovan
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I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Abraham Lincoln