Desire Quotes
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
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There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
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I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.
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Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
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If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
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Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
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I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
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Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
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Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
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A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks
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When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
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This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.
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I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.
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It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
