Desire Quotes · Page 204

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?

— Dag Hammarskjold

“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.”

— Robert Wells

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

— William Penn

Sometimes you're not given what you want because something you need has been planned for you instead.

— Bakare

“From desire come all problems. And all desires come from fear.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“Leading with DESIRE is a decadent opportunity to create an everyday love affair with life.”

— Lebo Grand

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

— Brother Lawrence

“Our first desire should not be to change God's heart but to change ours.”

— Danny L Deaubé

I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often…

— Madame de Stael

My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have…

— Ai Weiwei

“It is in the nature of 9 men out of 10 that what may be theirs for the picking up, they are…

— Georgette Heyer

As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than…

— Anonymous

I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around…

— Doreen Virtue

Down deep in his heart he knew that we all have the same promise of the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence…

— Anonymous

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is…

— William Cobbett

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do…

— Wallace D. Wattles

I think that initially all I wanted to do was work as an actress, and then, as I started to work more…

— Gillian Jacobs

We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You want to know why I am the perfect champion? Because you can take the strength of John Cena; the intelligence of…

— Randy Orton

Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form…

— David Rakoff

If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“Her first instinct was to look away, to shield her wicked thoughts and feelings from his penetrating gaze. But if ever there…

— Connie Mason

“Sexual desire does not obey the laws that maintain peace and contentment between partners. Reason, understanding, compassion, and camaraderie are the handmaidens…

— Esther Perel

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like…

— Jean Fritz

I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?

— Rakim

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

— Byron Katie

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

— Alan Rickman

I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large -…

— Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

— David Lodge

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

— Hafez

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.

— Robert Breault

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

— John Ruskin

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.

— Brigham Young

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

— Henry Fielding

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

— Napoleon Hill

“No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else.”

— Kaori Yuki

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

— Neil Simon

“A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.”

— George Gritter

I have never been driven by partisan politics, only a desire to better the lives of my constituents.

— Jeff Van Drew

“It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at.”

— Jane Austen