Desire Quotes · Page 101

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

— Jane Smiley

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

— Eric Hoffer

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

— Maggie Gallagher

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

— Serena Williams

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you cant see how it is.

— Anonymous

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.

— Elaine Pagels

“The desire is so strong, the pleasure so infinite, I find it difficult to breathe.”

— Megan Keith

Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.

— Ilhan Omar

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

— Herbert Spencer

“You are what you desire. You may live with desires and determine all that you want; But your actions determine what and…

— Gian Kumar

We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to…

— Joseph Stalin

If the desires are cut off one by one, then there is peace. When the desires go one by one then there…

— Sathya Sai Baba

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them…

— Suzanne La Follette

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh…

— Jeffery Deaver

The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in…

— Mark Mobius

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along -…

— Nigel Mansell

Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins…

— Diego Giacometti

As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion,…

— Christmas Humphreys

My films are not really constructed films, as much as remembered films. I've got this desire to catch traces of memory, but…

— Alice Rohrwacher

You are still in 100% body con­sciousness. Do not stay with this body conscious­ness. Remove that. What will remain will be Atma-consciousness.…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it,…

— Rene Descartes

“You must invest out of passion ! You must invest out of desire ! The same way you invent. The same way…

— Sharon Shinn

God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Desire had never done anything good in her life, so she had divorced it years ago.”

— Talena Winters

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

— Tom Robbins

“You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.”

— T.F. Hodge

“An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He”

— Ayn Rand

“1.   A definite purpose backed by burning desire for its fulfillment.       2.   A”

— Napoleon Hill

Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

— Rumi

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

— Solon

“Shock and desire have my nerves tingling like I've been struck by horny lightning.”

— Nicole Christie

“We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.”

— Marcel Proust

The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.

— Oriah Dreamer

Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.

— Zicheng Hong

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

— Robert McKee

I think it's something you're born with - the desire to know how things work inside.

— Grant Imahara

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

— Plato

Desires are like wild horses it requires intelligence and character to conquer them.

— Tasneem Hameed