Desire Quotes

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?

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.