Desire Quotes · Page 121

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of…

— Edith Head

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

— Ravi Zacharias

I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire…

— Brad Anderson

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

— Myles Garrett

Lataji defines the sound of Indian music, and I always had a secret desire of recording with her at least once.

— Shankar Mahadevan

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should…

— Walt Whitman

Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.

— Kool Moe Dee

'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

— Mike Vallely

“Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch,…

— Eugene Utley

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings…

— Anonymous

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and…

— Kim Weston

“Whichever direction our [desires] pushes us, we must become more [concious] about continuously pulling in the [opposite] direction. Back to Center.”

— Psixomaxaristw

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of…

— Thomas a Kempis

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not…

— Gabriel Zaid

I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on…

— Lancelot Andrewes

The audience does not need to tune themselves to you - you need to tune your message to fit them. Skilled presenting…

— Nancy Duarte

“Did my moral upbrining somehow turn against itself? If looking at someone with desire was as bad as satisfying the desire, if…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our…

— Dan B. Allender

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures…

— Pipilotti Rist

Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood…

— Gautama Buddha

When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life,…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

“I was convinced the answer to life's enigmas must lie in connecting our emotional yearnings to nature.”

— Liza Dalby

The people of Alabama desire leadership that is willing to get things done.

— Kay Ivey

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be…

— George MacDonald

“You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it…

— Alice Sebold

The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

— Dan Marino

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

— Timothy Keller

“Salvation of mankind is neither human effort nor desire. But God's grace of a greater mercy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

— Karl Kraus

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

— Horace

“reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.”

— William B. Irvine

“For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain.”

— Lacy Danes

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

— R. T. Kendall

The most important thing is that the player is good enough and has a desire for the national team.

— Hansi Flick