Desire Quotes · Page 173

Don't trade what you want most for what you want for the moment.

— Anonymous

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

— Baltasar Gracian

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

— H. G. Wells

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

— Jean Patou

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

— George Eliot

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

— Anonymous

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

— Philip Neri

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

— Iris Murdoch

“It's ok to have a desire for more and to be inspirationally dissatisfied, but being happy and enjoying the journey of reaching…

— Dwaun S. Cox

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they…

— Rachel Cusk

Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Research shows that rejecting an offer is an emotional decision, triggered by anger at a lousy offer and the desire to punish.…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our…

— Vance Havner

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be…

— John Wesley

I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I…

— Rachilde

“For the first time since they'd left the inn, his eyes stopped roaming the hills and crags of the countryside and roamed…

— Tessa Dare

I've always had an overwhelming desire to express a particular set of ideas. As a musician, I'm always working with different people…

— Tycho

Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire…

— Jerry Bridges

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in…

— Alan Lightman

It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the…

— Cassandra Clare

“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still…

— Sylvia Plath

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers]…

— John Steinbeck

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!”

— Dorothy Day

The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.

— Milo Aukerman

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

— Vanessa Paradis

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

— Charles Baudelaire

“To get what your heart desire, you must loose something you hold dear. That is the way of things in this world. ”

— Calista

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

— Saul Bellow

“matter of time until he starts satisfying his craving. As if reading”

— Justine Elvira

The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends.

— Ore Abayomi

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

— Rajneesh

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“I lead with the knowingness that my reality conforms to my wishes and desires instantly.”

— Robin S. Baker

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

— Meagan Good

If we desire to secure peace...it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.

— George Washington

I like to watch 'Paris, Texas,' but I have no desire to see it. I did it.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

— Anonymous