Desire Quotes

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

Always desire to learn something useful.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.