Quotes about desire
desire want body
I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. Marguerite Duras
desire watches may
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests. Marguerite Yourcenar
desire wanted feels
I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better. Mikhail Gorbachev
desire common easy
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. Mitchell Zuckoff
desire vietnam flopping
It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam. Mitt Romney
desire path succeed
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
desire sin moments
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God. R. C. Sproul
desire ought
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. Publilius Syrus
desire seems
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
desire wish missionary
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. Pierre Loti
desire needs subconscious
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium. Nellie McKay
desire age increase
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living Oliver Goldsmith
desire ease natural
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
desire invisible bigs
I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire. Marcus Samuelsson
desire thirst filled
The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied. Marcus Tullius Cicero
desire reason
Let reason govern desire.
desire reason
Let your desires be ruled by reason.
desire economics achieve
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom Margaret Thatcher
desire burning action
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.
desire burning action
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.
desire islam ancient
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society. Maajid Nawaz
desire islam administration
The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. Louis Farrakhan
desire leading-ladies
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue. Melanie Lynskey
desire hunger states
Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger. Mary Roach
desire violence surrender
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. Marquis de Sade
desire tendencies willing
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves. Mark Epstein
desire goes-on lectures
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. Mary MacLane
desire riches poverty
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. Mark Twain
desire ends escalation
Is there no end to this escalation of desire? Marya Mannes
desire levels gestures
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. Marya Hornbacher
desire want underestimate
Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?
desire our-future
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future. Michel de Montaigne
desire may virtue
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.