Desire Quotes · Page 104

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

— Anonymous

“He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.”

— E.M. Forster

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

— Danny Elfman

Desire is desire wherever you..the sun will not bleach it nor the tide was it away

— Leonardo Dicaprio

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

— Laozi

The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

— Alexandra Petri

Lord change my appetite, my desire, my wants and make me life you Lord.

— Anonymous

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

— Ram Dass

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

— Ai Weiwei

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

“Discipline is the thing that makes you do what you might not want to, but you do it anyway because it's what…

— Kyle Vidrine

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of…

— Nellie Bly

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home…

— Vernon Howard

An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream…

— Mac Anderson

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And…

— Judith Martin

New year is here it's time to stop saying I wish. Now start saying I will. Believe in yourself you can achieve…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have…

— Adyashanti

An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by…

— Dick Vitale

in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good…

— Ilka Chase

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability…

— Hanif Kureishi

God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at…

— Baron d'Holbach

“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold…

— Jeanette Winterson

“With each passing year our tolerance for unpleasant sensations decreases, and our craving for pleasant sensations increases. Both scientific research and economic…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we…

— Dalai Lama

I always had and I still have that special desire in me to be the best.

— Eddy Merckx

“The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God”

— Sunday Adelaja

With a desire that's strong it doesn't matter how many times we failed or how long it takes, the change would be…

— Senora Roy

The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and…

— David Harbour

“Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].”

— Dada Bhagwan

“…but something is speaking and it’s neither Miller nor I. It’s desire.”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

— Aleksandar Hemon

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

— Zadie Smith

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

— Anonymous

It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.

— Robert Thurman

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

— Benjamin Graham

“She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer…

— Charles Bukowski

“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

— Melina Marchetta

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

— John Cassavetes

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

— Jeremy Davies