Desire Quotes

When desire dies, fear is born.

If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

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

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.