Quotes about desire
desire leaves-of-grass speak
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman
desire bread sandwiches
As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich. Sarah Dessen
desire may encounters
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one. Roland Barthes
desire skins language-and-power
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
desire succeed burning
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed. Rod Stewart
desire want made
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. Robert Smith
desire grows insatiable
Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.
desire calm conversion
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience. Samuel Rutherford
desire progress want
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Samuel Johnson
desire common qualified
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
desire vipers poison
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
desire actresses well-known
I never had any desire to become a well-known actress. Rebecca Miller
desire being-the-best best-ever
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire Richard Krajicek
desire sean
I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn. Trey Parker
desire my-friends good-will
I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not. Ulysses S. Grant
desire ability determine
One's desire, not ability, determines success. Vince Lombardi
desire poverty wonder
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself? Vikas Swarup
desire fairy-tale tales
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? Rudyard Kipling
desire
Wanting is the beginning of getting. Rumer Godden
desire world longing
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us. Robert Southey
desire despair world
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair. Wallace Stevens
desire mentor guru
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple. Vivek Wadhwa
desire might way
In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded. Willa Cather
desire want way
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
desire treats treat-yourself
Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become. Wayne Dyer
desire self-improvement improvement
When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life.
desire needs reason
You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.
desire daily-life inarticulate
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. Virginia Woolf
desire shadow degrees
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire. William Blake
desire
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.
desire energy interest
I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire. Wendy Whelan
desire fields remains
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. Walker Percy
desire gates repulsion
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. Salvador Dali