Desire Quotes · Page 101

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills.

— Hermann Hesse

If you are dominated by fear and doubts, Success will be far from you.

— Ore Abayomi

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

— Winona Ryder

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

— Herbert Read

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

— Sheryl Crow

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

— Robert Ringer

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.

— T.L. Osborn

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.

— Deepak Chopra

When two who have suffered find each other, the bond is like steel. They become each others' soul mates and comfort from…

— Anonymous

To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the…

— Sigrid Undset

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from…

— Velupillai Prabhakaran

I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other…

— David Berman

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to…

— Robertson Davies

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to…

— Albert Camus

Believe in yourself and know that you can do anything in this world that you want to do if you want to…

— Mary Kay Ash

It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and…

— Thomas Keneally

There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And…

— Josh Tickell

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and…

— Lin Yutang

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present,…

— Joan Cocks

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But…

— Beau Willimon

“You must believe so strong and without a doubt that you can and will fulfill your dreams and gain your desires. You…

— Alan O'Brien

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

— Mark Lawrence

When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

— Denis Waitley

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

— Samuel Butler

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What stands out for me are the chances that Cristiano has created and the desire to score that he always has.

— Casemiro

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

— Dallin H. Oaks

I always had that desire of being strong and being able to protect myself, being able to protect others.

— Patrik Baboumian

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

— Andy Rooney

I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurt. The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost.

— Albert Fish

That desire and drive to keep going are crucial things to have, and time off gave that to me.

— Johny Hendricks