Desire Quotes · Page 103

There was never a burning desire to be a top actress in the first place. I happily gave up my career to…

— Namrata Shirodkar

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

— Anonymous

Life seems to b boring when you hav everything you 'Wanted' But,Life is more wonderful when it is loaded with 'Desires'

— Tabassum

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

— W. Clement Stone

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

— Alexander Smith

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

— Pietro Aretino

Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

— Adam Smith

I'm sorry for Italian football; there's no desire to improve Italian football.

— Massimiliano Allegri

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it.…

— Philip Johnson

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant…

— Jess Walter

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

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

— William Cobbett

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

— 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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Georgette Heyer

Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld,…

— Sivananda

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I…

— Prem Prakash

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to…

— Michel Hazanavicius

“Excuse me,’ I said cheerily. ‘Is the job still going?’ I pointed to the notice. ‘Of course,’ he said, looking back at…

— Fiona Thrust

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because…

— Molly Antopol

The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.…

— Dalai Lama

“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This: ??…

— Anaïs Nin

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

— St. Catherine of Siena

“I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.”

— Rae Carson

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

— Swami Sivananda

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I tried to take a shortcut to your heart instead I got lost in the wilderness of my own desire.”

— Pamela August Russell

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

— Milton Friedman

“Mere flight in a dream you say. In dream many desires are revealed; and desire may be the last flicker of Estel.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

— George W. Bush

When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires.

— Rick Santorum

I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows…

— Paul Rust

“Desire, Ask, Believe, Receive,” the mystic Stella Terrill Mann advises.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

— Tom Brady

There's an inner desire, something inside of me, that's always wanted to be great and leave a mark.

— Mitchell Trubisky