Desire Quotes · Page 155

The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.

— Jake Arrieta

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

— John Fowles

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

— Dalai Lama

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

— Rumi

“You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

— Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

— Thomas Wolfe

I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life.

— Anna Chancellor

I do think people would be surprised to know that journalists from various news outlets are in this together in many ways…

— Kristen Welker

Boilersuits are used by everybody from pilots in the army to racing drivers to people who clean your drains. The one piece…

— James May

“Did you think a wishing well would be full of noble feelings? A wish is pure desire, Lizzy. You're old enough to…

— Jake Wyatt

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between…

— Walter Lippmann

“This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and…

— Robert C. Martin

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft.…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

At the core of all human behavior, the good feelings we all want are more or less the same. Therefore, what we…

— Mark Manson

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always…

— Adrienne Rich

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or…

— Edward Hoagland

So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing…

— William H. Gass

“I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need…

— Ella Frank

“They want you to be afraid. They want to believe, and they want to suffer, suffer, only suffer, and they choke the…

— Mercè Rodoreda

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there…

— Sean O'Casey

Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present…

— Martin Van Buren

“As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.”

— Shelly Thacker

We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

— Francoise Sagan

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

— Henrik Ibsen

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

— Teresa of Avila

“When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving…

— Anaïs Nin

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

— Cheri Huber

The quickest way to succeed is to keep your mistakes closer than your desire for success.

— Vikrant Parsai

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

— Ezra Taft Benson

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that,

— Kate Winslet

What kept me going was my desire to provide a hygiene product for my wife.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

— Josephine Tey

For knowledge you must have a desire and habit of learning. Along with knowledge, learning makes one humble.

— Anil Sinha

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

— Napoleon Hill

Talent doesn't win football games. But talent, heart and desire do. A good coach will recognize what's inside.

— Rudy Ruettiger