Desire Quotes
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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
Lea Thompson
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For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.
Lisa See
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All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.
Eric Metaxas
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I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Jock Sturges
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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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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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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
Nell Scovell
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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. Lewis
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To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire for power that never left him. His childhood experiences created the man he would become, who would not bend or allow fear or weakness in any form. He cared nothing for possessions or wealth, only that his enemies fall.
Conn Iggulden
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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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The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.
Juan Enriquez
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All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.
Thomas à Kempis
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I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.
Geoffrey Boycott
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This element, the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.
Aristotle
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My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.
Luca Guadagnino
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Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us thy humble home; Rise, the woman's conquering Seed, Bruise in us the serpent's head. . . . Adam's likeness, Lord, efface; Stamp thine image in its place. Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in thy love.
Charles Wesley
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I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.
Bill de Blasio
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You want to have a loving, safe relationship with your child, but you can't because you have to do these things to protect them or protect them from themselves - or try to make sure they don't become a vampire! Your desires and your needs are in opposition, and that's always fun to play.
Jack Coleman
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Just the desire to play a mom, wanting to play someone actually closer to who I am and where I am in my life. People are used to seeing me play the single, hot girl, which has been fun, but at the same time, this role is more akin to my natural proclivities.
Essence Atkins
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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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A creative man is achieved by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to defeat others.
Vijay Sethupathi
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'Learning organizations' are organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.
Peter Senge
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'Prince of parable, I desire to see those gardens of lasting delight which Allah-the Creator! the Ever Beneficent!-reserves for the faithful. How am I to do so if I tell lies?' 'By lying to Allah, I suppose.'
Gene Wolfe
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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
Joseph Butler