Desire Quotes
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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.'
Aneurin Barnard
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If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.
Napoleon Hill
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
Epictetus
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It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.
Dale Carnegie
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We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
Jane McGonigal
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You wonder about her crime. She was condemned to death for stealing clothes from her employer, from the wife of her employer. She wished to make herself more beautiful. This desire in servants was not legal.
Margaret Atwood
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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Lin Yutang
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When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
Nelsan Ellis
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall
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Within the miraculous brew of universal creativity , all you desire already exists. Spend five minutes each morning with your eyes closed, living in that dimension. Allow images to unfold without censor. Feel yourself living the most magnificent life -- a life of joy, creativity and love -- as you grow inwardly into the person you need to be in order to manifest it effortlessly.
Marianne Williamson
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It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
John Nelson Darby
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If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.
Marco Bizzarri
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Wilt thou fear that, and fear not my desire?
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig
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A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!
Brian Molko Placebo
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Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
Dalai Lama
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If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
Ambrose of Optina
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You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.
Cynthia Carroll
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner
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God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
Saint Augustine
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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
Jeremy Irons
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My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Janine Turner
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Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.
Confucius
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The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
William Shakespeare