Desire Quotes · Page 122

Those who dare to accept the challenges are the ones who really wish to learn.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Having confidence in who you are and your appearance is what makes you desirable.

— Moyo Adekoya

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

— Jeanette Winterson

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

— Sean Parker

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

— Mortimer Adler

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that…

— Alan Kay

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such…

— Ayn Rand

Daesh thought it could exploit the vulnerability of the Iraqi state, but it underestimated the overwhelming desire of the Iraqi people for…

— Haider al-Abadi

Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet…

— Muriel Barbery

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of…

— Helen Fisher

“Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human…

— Sai Baba

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

It is my greatest desire, I want the people in Russia to be happy and I want our partners around the world…

— Vladimir Putin

“When I close my eyes to see, to hear, to smell, to touch a country I have known, I feel my body…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds…

— Saint Augustine

I do believe that the Kurds are in a difficult situation. They do have some American support. How consistent that will be…

— Joshua Landis

“ Sometimes I forget this insoluble mess and dream: he’ll save me, we’ll travel; we’ll hunt in the deserts, we’ll sleep on…

— Kathy Acker

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her…

— Erica Jong

When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have…

— Wilferd Peterson

The desire for romantic love in marriage is deeply rooted in our psychological makeup.

— Gary Chapman

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

— Marya Mannes

My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.

— Cassandra Clare

“Tis both a blessing a and a curse to desire a man in a physical manner.”

— Leigh Ann Edwards

Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

— Aristotle

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

— R. C. Sproul

“And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

— William Blake

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

— Joseph Stalin

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

— Sigmund Freud

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

— Marcus Garvey

After all this time, my desire to be with you is still slightly stronger than my desire to be single.

— Anonymous

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

— George Bernard Shaw

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

— Mahmoud Darwish

I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.

— Jerry Rice