Desire Quotes

Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

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.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

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.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.