Desire Quotes

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.

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.