All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert. — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. From that point onwards, things change, the man and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Anyone can desire anything, but if you're not going to commit, you're not getting it. — Cassey Ho Copy Share Image
“I had become a girl, then a woman, living in shadow, who could not bear the weight of her own heart -… — Anna Camilleri Copy Share Image
Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I used to wish that I would just wake up one day and the bad feeling in my mind would be gone.… — Heather Anne Talpa Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with… — Carl Karcher Copy Share Image
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor. — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I have no particular desire to live. I have no particular desire to be killed. It is a matter of indifference to… — Albert Fish Copy Share Image
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“A veritable atlas. What rivers of desire, what mountains of ambition. Want, want, hope, hope, this is what your palm say, your… — Anuradha Roy Copy Share Image
...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken” — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release… — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
“Tiny bolts of lightning struck wherever Hana's skin touched Keishin's and sent a current through her veins. She had cradled countless bright,… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
“I let my sword slip to the ground, and for the second time I stood unarmed in the presence of werewolves. Kresh… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“I convinced myself that, as a principle, cheating was off-limits, but it scared the shit out of me that it could be… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.... — Euripides Copy Share Image
Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
My desire for you grows with each day that passes. I love everything about you. You are a warm, loving, sensitive, beautiful… — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
“You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?” “The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and… — Elizabeth Barton Copy Share Image
Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record,… — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
