Desire Quotes · Page 106

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

— Rumi

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

— Caitlin Thomas

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

— Wilfred Bion

I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.

— Aesop Rock

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

— Ernest Sosa

“You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!”

— Emily Brontë

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I'm very honest.

— Marc Jacobs

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith…

— Anne Graham Lotz

“the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I…

— Philip K. Dick

“...Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you…

— Italo Calvino

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

— Malcolm Gladwell

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to…

— Zoe Kravitz

You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm…

— Tim Sherwood

I'm fascinated by what lies beneath the surface. If you manage to put desire on stage, it can be very exciting. It's…

— Sean Mathias

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a…

— Khalil

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I…

— Marlee Matlin

A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush…

— Paul Kengor

“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if…

— Montesquieu

It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds…

— Ronald Rolheiser

At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than…

— Jacob Needleman

For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from…

— Bob Marshall

“The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of…

— Murad S. Shah

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be…

— Steve Jobs

“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I…

— Anaïs Nin

I served. And now it's time for the new man to serve. I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

— George W. Bush

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to…

— Sam Abell

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

— George Eliot

I think it's something you're born with - the desire to know how things work inside.

— Grant Imahara

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

— Francois Fenelon

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

— Erich Maria Remarque

“His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.

— Brian Azzarello

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

— Zig Ziglar

Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

— Oprah Winfrey

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

— Lauren Fleshman

There are a lot of athletic trends that I don't have. I feel like I have a bigger heart and desire than…

— Peyton Hillis

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

— David A. Bednar

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

— Richard Fleischer

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

— Nick Vujicic

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

— Thomas a Kempis