Desires Quotes

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.