Desire Quotes · Page 109

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

— Kenneth Oppel

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

— Rumi

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

— Jane Austen

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

— Giacomo Casanova

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

— David McCord

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

— Slavoj Žižek

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

— Derren Brown

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could…

— Siri Hustvedt

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who…

— Plato

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture,…

— Mark Pagel

“I would learn the varying temperature of erratic desire, the caloric output of longing, and the previously undefined and eventually unbearable weight…

— Jim Provenzano

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion…

— Rush Limbaugh

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not…

— Woodrow Wilson

Everything you do today will affect your future in some way. Make the best decisions for you in present so you achieve…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough…

— Norman Mailer

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks…

— Swami Vivekananda

The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be…

— Oswald Spengler

Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred.…

— Richard G. Scott

“What filled her wasn't desire, but tenderness, and a profund gratitude that he lived, and she did, too. That he had found…

— Laini Taylor

I wasn't a girl who grew up wearing dresses, but I was always attracted to fabric. When we'd go to a shop,…

— Vicky Krieps

“The images start to darken and she feels another hunger well up in her, this one having to do with another kind…

— Melissa St. Hilaire

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires…

— Plato

“He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.”

— Sara Sheridan

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

— Thomas Boston

My desire is to be as independent as I can be, as long as I can be, subject to being effective.

— Angus King

“Desire, it is everywhere you look. The desire to be loved. The desire to be unique. The desire to simply live.”

— Alberto Pupo

There's no great desire to own lots of stuff - and I don't. You can only live in one house and drive…

— Ken Loach

You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.

— Cate Blanchett

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

— Lady Gaga

“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.”

— T.E. Lawrence

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

— Madame de Stael

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm…

— Ronald Reagan

When people have a passion and desire, it burns through and shows.

— Mickie James

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

— Lisa Kleypas

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

— John Calvin

Anything you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must come to reality.

— Anonymous

“Buddhism, which does not center on a god, but rather on a human who said suffering arises from craving.”

— FastReads

Life must go on,,,no give up,,untill you not cath up on your desire.

— John Rey Pelareja