Desire Quotes · Page 170

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I…

— Francesca Annis

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

— Saadi

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

— Jasper Johns

As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.

— Jessica Jung

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

— Craig Ferguson

“the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Most of us always desire more, and some must therefore have less.”

— Julian North

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

— Ray Bradbury

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“She is wild love and eternal fire - A sensual blend of soft heart and burning desire. Yes, an acquired taste, but…

— Melody Lee

If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream,…

— Haruki Murakami

The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world.…

— Gustav Nossal

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by…

— Wendell Berry

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can…

— Thomas Hobbes

“Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare…

— Ephrem the Syrian

The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need…

— Stuart Ewen

I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm,…

— Rupert Brooke

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to…

— John Dewey

“The joy of having something comes from the length of time you have been wanting it, expecting it. Happiness really lies in…

— Osho

I know from the elders that it's not so easy to sustain a life in music, a presence in the music world,…

— Vijay Iyer

Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface -…

— David Bentley Hart

Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In the long run, our most deeply held desires will govern our choices, one by one and day by day, until our…

— Bruce C. Hafen

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Life is such a journey on a sea of constant waves and splashing desires.”

— Nadina Boun

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

— Brad Falchuk

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, the powerful desire to please limitless, uninhibited until there are no desires remaining.

— Stacy Wilks

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque…

— Alfred Brendel

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life

— Frederick Douglass

“If you desire something, and trust that it will come to you, then you will have it.”

— Mike Basevic

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

— Alexander Graham Bell

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

— Orson Pratt

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

— Jacques Lacan

It's hard to write sex because it's hard to write desire, period.

— Catherine Brady

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine

— Napoleon Hill

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

— Boyd K. Packer

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

— Isabelle Huppert