Desire Quotes · Page 139

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

— John C. Maxwell

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

— Bell Hooks

Our life is a gymnasium of desire… When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that…

— Saint Augustine

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When love, passion, & feeling to drive you, you will become slave to your desire

— Olajide David Dominion

“The legitimacy of your desires to exist is paramount to manifesting your desires within your reality.”

— steven redhead

“The best way to achieve a wonderful life is to have wonderful desires.”

— Steven Redhead

“Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed vil­lages, kid­napped princesses.”

— Leah Raeder

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of…

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“of high-quality polyunsaturated fatty acids. They are very filling, and consuming these products will usually reduce your sugar cravings, simply because you…

— Mary Anderson

Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and…

— Annie Besant

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything…

— Abraham Lincoln

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched…

— Ishmael

My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that…

— Arthur Tress

“I believe in love at first sight… But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment…

— Ranata Suzuki

Within the context of the clubs, and perhaps the sex business as a whole, the issue of race becomes very complicated because…

— Craig Seymour

“The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When…

— Caroline Adderson

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Everywhere I go in Pakistan and Afghanistan, I am touched by the fierce desire for education, and the outpouring of hospitality and…

— Greg Mortenson

I learned that money can be a lot of things,It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld.…

— Louis C. K

I learned years ago, I adore acting and I think it's the most alive I know how to be - almost -…

— Kathleen Turner

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own,…

— Thomas Browne

“Strong Mercy: My desires are many and my cry is pitiful, but ever didst thou save me by hard refusals; and this…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.”

— Tom Robbins

I wasn't a person who was longing forever to have a baby; the desire came up suddenly.

— Rachel Weisz

Determination can bring success in our life, but dreams incite our desires...

— Ritu Ghatourey

There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive.

— Big Daddy Kane

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

— Eric Hoffer

“I like desires like children and their plays that tease me now and then into knowing life.”

— Suman Pokhrel

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

— Saint Augustine

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

— Henry Becque

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

— Michel de Montaigne

“How is it that there was never you until there was and then all was you?”

— Kamand Kojouri

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

— Johan Huizinga

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

— Jacqueline Carey

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

— Charles Frazier