Desire Quotes · Page 131

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Man cannot be content in his riches even if he has the whole world, there must be a frivolous extra desire.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“She wanted to be the rain, to cover him with moisture, to bring life to his seed.”

— Caris Roane

I think about Milan from morning to night, and there is certainly no lack of effort and desire on my part.

— Clarence Seedorf

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

— Carla Bruni

There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.

— Radhanath Swami

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

— Raymond Holliwell

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my…

— Anonymous

God created us, He created us for His glory, and He created us to have a relationship with Him, and He created…

— Josh McDowell

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience,…

— Edward Sapir

In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion…

— Donald A. Norman

Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed…

— John Knowles

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity…

— Nick Rahall

“What we think of as our “gut instincts” are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires.”

— Lisa Unger

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something…

— Sylvester Stallone

A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a…

— Gustave Flaubert

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding…

— George Saunders

I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just…

— Marilyn Manson

“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge…

— Sándor Márai

“The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It…

— Oswald Spengler

I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or…

— Bruce Barnbaum

“Time listens patiently to the drones and demands of destiny’s desire”

— Leo Lourdes

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

— Matthew Quick

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

— Henepola Gunaratana

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.

— Zan Perrion

I would say a successful campaign reflects the desire of the people who are there to support a candidate.

— Darryl Glenn

“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”

— Jess Walter

We all have hidden or repressed desires, and let he who has never had at least one cast the first stone.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

— Napoleon Hill

“I can’t apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to.”

— Scott Stabile

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

— Simone Weil

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

— David Emerald Womeldorff

Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then you will suffer.

— Osho

I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

— Laurence Gartel

“One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.”

— L'Abbé Prévost