Desire Quotes

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

The desire to write grows with writing.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.