Desire Quotes

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

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.

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.