Desire Quotes
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Having a band was part of my heart's desire, musically. Within myself, I was saying that, 'Not until you have a band for yourself can you maintain the standard of your songs,' and the sound become a foundation. You don't have to feel around for two or three weeks for the sound because the foundation is already built.
Burning Spear
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
Arthur George Street
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I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.
Anna Chancellor
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
Francoise Sagan
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Most of the more complex emotions are common to the higher animals and ourselves. Every one has seen how jealous a dog is of his master's affection, if lavished on any other creature; and I have observed the same fact with monkeys. This shews that animals not only love, but have the desire to be loved.
Charles Darwin
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Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one.
Bernard Lewis
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The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills - and as immortal.
James Branch Cabell
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I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
Kathleen Turner
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O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?
Erica Jong
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I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.
Kim Cattrall
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The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel
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Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
Carole King
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If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Epictetus
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With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire to teach the world how to become successful, Napoleon Hill devoted nearly his entire adult lifetime creating practical content entrepreneurs need to become successful.
Clay Clark
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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Cain is completely dissatisfied with the security granted to him by God, and so he searches out his own security. ... He will satisfy his desire for eternity by producing children, and he will satisfy his desire for security by creating a place belonging to him, a city.
Jacques Ellul
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I'm usually attracted to more interesting types of men. I have no desire to be with a cookie-cutter Ken doll.
Jessica Parker Kennedy
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My findings have demonstrated that an optimal micronutrient intake reduces the desire for calories and reduces body temperature and white blood cell counts.
Joel Fuhrman
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Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.
Andrea Navedo
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Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality.
Esther Hicks
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So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.
William H. Gass
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I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable.
Asghar Farhadi
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Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
Napoleon Hill
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I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
Cindy Gallop