“Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I am the bathtub of desire, but damnit woman, I saw you eyeing that swimming pool.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
“A leader’s meal is that unstoppable desire to stay late to see his dreams achieved. They never give up.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“We often exist in no man’s land; between the extremities of what we want to be and what we have become.” — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top. — Herb Elliott Copy Share Image
“We are here to question and yearn. If we deal with our nature in a healthy way, this yearning makes us grow.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
If you meet someone in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, such person is worthy of your love, and is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes.… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed. — Dave Thomas Copy Share Image
I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“I remember being unusually pensive that May evening, perhaps it was the heat of Spring's first warm day which, encountering my thick… — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
“The greatest remedy in the world is change; and change implies the passing from the old to the new. It is also… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Like all who are impassioned, I take blissful delight in losing myself, in fully experiencing the thrill of surrender. And so I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more.… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope. — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If you truly desire to be great, you must understand time management.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and… — Isabella Blow Copy Share Image
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“And it showed me the truth about myself: the fact that I hide my desires does not mean that I do not… — Ruslana Pidsadiuk Copy Share Image
When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“The only regrets that will consume your heart, are those that took the place of your desires.” — Alice K. Green Copy Share Image
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.” — Plum Sykes Copy Share Image