Desire Quotes

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

Desire creates its own object.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.