Desire Quotes
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Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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The end of desire is the end of sorrow.
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
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Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
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In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
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If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
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The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires.
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The King sisters must be thanked for their desire to protect this land. Without their tenacity and the support from their families, this deal would never have come together.
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Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.
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The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.
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I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'
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It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?
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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.
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Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.
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The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely.
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Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
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Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
