Desire Quotes · Page 169

“Ignite your mind and all the desires thereof shall never cease to fail.”

— Kelvin Coleman

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

— Nahum Tate

“Craving for what you don’t have kills your enjoyment for what you already have.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Endeavors that help me satisfy you, my goddess of desire, pleasure, and corny one-liners.

— Sylvia Day

“All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately, Though they look like desires mental or sensory; - 39 -”

— Munindra Misra

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

— Patrick Chan

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

— Napoleon Hill

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

— Charles Spurgeon

“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of…

— Susan Stewart

“Those who haven't visualise their dreams yet talk about people and things but those who already grasped their dreams talk about desires…

— Euginia Herlihy

How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be…

— Pliny the Elder

“A man may begin by following the craving of desire, until he comes to see how hollow and unreal a thing is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with…

— Christina Stead

“It would be comical if it wasn’t so sad: all of our desires to make ourselves worthy of this world but unfit…

— Brennan Manning

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing…

— Dave Earley

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state…

— Joel Bakan

Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that…

— Charles Eisenstein

“He decides he wants both more and less. He’d like to hang out with Beyonce in a nice way, get to know…

— Ben Fountain

Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were…

— Thomas Merton

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each…

— Wolfgang Petersen

What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century,…

— Andrew Schneider

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on…

— W. H. Auden

I really don't know why people have so much trouble now writing about religious faith. It is true that clichés can override…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

— Will McDonough

“‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing”

— Mariam Kobras

There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.

— Napoleon Hill

Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

— Eleanor Brown

Let go of all the desires that hinders your progress and move towards your purpose.

— Bokamoso Bruce Tlhwaele

“Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart’s desire.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

— Antoine Rivarol

“Psalm 37:4 4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”

— LaNina King

Passion is the desire to do something with fervor. It is the certainty that one is going to accomplish their dreams

— Subhan Zein

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

— Quentin Crisp

I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

— Michel Foucault

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

— George W. Bush

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

— Joseph Conrad

I wished to be loved by another,' [Éowyn] answered. 'But I desire no man's pity.

— Anonymous

“My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun…

— Dante