Desire Quotes

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.

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.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.