Desire Quotes

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

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.