Desire Quotes · Page 84

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

— John Foster

The desire to please other people is a potent way to distract yourself from what you are feeling.

— Gary Zukav

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

— William Shakespeare

“As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

— Nikola Tesla

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.

— Eric Metaxas

“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")”

— William S. Wilson

“The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of…

— Vironika Tugaleva

I think of time as I think of desire and language and our bodies; the distance between things and then things themselves,…

— RaMell Ross

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his…

— Jim Wallis

My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a…

— Dove Cameron

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared…

— Iain Pears

'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they…

— Abi Morgan

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can…

— Bayard Rustin

Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly.…

— Jeff Koons

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of…

— Eric Hoffer

How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions…

— David Simon

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious…

— Mark Twain

“He captured one of her legs, stilling her for a moment so he could fit his own between hers. Sliding upward, he…

— Tracy Anne Warren

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the…

— Mary Oliver

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has…

— Michael Foley

“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself…

— Anaïs Nin

There is still boxing, but there's just no money in it anymore. If you went around the world and asked a bunch…

— Hugh Jackman

“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.”

— Robin Hobb

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come…

— George C. Wolfe

Best things to have is faith, Determination, and courage with these we can achieve everything we desire.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

— William James

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

— Andrew Carnegie

“With fire in my lungs forgiveness in my head and desire in my heart.”

— Sarah Tregay

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

— Bruce Lee

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

— William Kidd

When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

— Frederick Lenz

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

— John Hodgman

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

— Joan Z. Borysenko

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

— Mitchell Zuckoff

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

— Helen Waddell