Desire Quotes
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As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.
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I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
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I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
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Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
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The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
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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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The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
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When I end up yelling, it's not really deliberate. It's usually out of some moment of passion or frustration or real desire to get unstuck.
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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
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You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
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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.
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I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.
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Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
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He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
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In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.
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Detach from emotions and desires; get rid of any fixations.
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.
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The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
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Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?
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It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.
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My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
