Desire Quotes · Page 136

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

— Mason Cooley

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

— Napoleon Hill

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

— Robert Breault

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

— Bonnie Blair

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

— Jean Klein

Where a country lies is a subjective decision and only in part a product of its own desire. Much, if not most,…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed:…

— Anonymous

Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that…

— Aubrey de Grey

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic…

— Anne Carson

“Someone as special as him is hard to find. Impossible to forget, impossible to deny! My desire for him becomes more and…

— Lily Amis

“He pulled my head back further, and I could hear his ragged breathing as his mouth came close to my ear, sounding…

— Fiona Thrust

Anxiety suggests a fear while Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper…

— Anonymous

“My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could…

— Julio-Alexi Genao

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the…

— Anais Nin

We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found…

— Anonymous

...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My…

— Bertrand Russell

Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss…

— Robin Spriggs

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium…

— Anonymous

Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If…

— Mother Teresa

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing…

— John Green

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride.

— Anonymous

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

— Kevin Jorgeson

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

— Anonymous

“Reality is littered with the corpses of unattained dreams and desires.”

— Steven Redhead

I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

— Daniel Handler

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

— Volkmar Sigusch

“I am drunk on his desire for me. My legs wrap around tightly around his waist.”

— K.C. Martin

Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

— Volkmar Sigusch

“In their desire to make their point, presenters miss the point.”

— Emily M. Axelrod

If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.

— Elaine S. Dalton

“Water your dreams with the essence of love so it may nurture and grow beyond your vision and desires.”

— Truth Devour

Some people want to make it happen, some wish it would happen, but others will make it happen.

— Anonymous

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

— Marcel Proust

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

— Gabriel Zaid

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

— Candace Bushnell