Desire Quotes · Page 167

Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?

— Narendra Modi

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

— Robert Bourassa

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

— David Levithan

“She and I will become one someday soon. So much so, that none will know where I begin and she ends. This…

— A.R. Von

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

— Heraclitus

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly…

— Jackie Chan

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

— Louis D. Brandeis

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

— Andy Rooney

It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country…

— Chely Wright

“You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you…

— Kathy Freston

“Maintaining a state of joyful expectancy and positive anticipation about our desires significantly influences their manifestation into reality.”

— Russ Kyle

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of…

— Zelda Popkin

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Simply put, girls and women are the keys that will unlock sustainable development. They are also at the center of the healthier…

— Tedros Adhanom

“Sometimes God gives you strength to do without because, for whatever reason, he knows it's better for you not to have your…

— Sarah Loudin Thomas

It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am…

— David Horowitz

The Healthiest Response to life is Laughter.There is always a reason to be grateful.You belong in the scheme of the universe. There's…

— Deepak Chopra

“David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If…

— Craig Groeschel

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Desire is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd is nothing. Desire is the greatest lsd possible –…

— Osho

“By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery,…

— bell hooks

I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely 'want' to, but because we have to. We have to…

— Hal Elrod

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative…

— Anonymous

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove…

— Izaak Walton

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

— Deborah Harkness

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

— Hannah Arendt

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

— Salman Rushdie

Never lose sight of what you need and what you desire. You might end up with what you never wanted.

— Anonymous

I have this dying desire to be on top. I'm paranoid about it. It's almost a sickness.

— Howie Long

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

— Ram Dass

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

— Jamie Sives

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

— Anonymous

Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods

— Frank E Brennan

“...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.”

— Amin Maalouf

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

— Konstantin Ushinsky

“Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.”

— Andy Paula

I have no desire to be 60 years old and standing on the side of the pitch.

— Frank Rijkaard

“A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.”

— Munia Khan

God will himself bless you with everything, so don't desire things before time.

— Senora Roy

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche