Desire Quotes

Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time.

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.