Desire Quotes · Page 175

“Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.”

— Anonymous

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength…

— Elisabeth Elliot

My commitment, and my desire to win the ball or make a tackle, that will never change. But you grow up. I'm…

— Patrick Vieira

Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?

— Gene Wolfe

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

— Robert Breault

The difference between who you ARE and who you WANT TO BE is the work you put in.

— Anonymous

“There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another…

— Upton Sinclair

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if…

— Jacqueline Carey

When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop…

— Bat for Lashes

“I think,” said the Major, taking his pipe from his mouth, “that desire is the most wonderful thing in life. Anybody who…

— D.H. Lawrence

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

— Francis Ray

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger…

— Alessandro Baricco

[ This Is Us] is a character-driven dramedy, in which you will laugh. You may have to pull out your tissue box…

— Sterling K. Brown

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the…

— Margaret Mead

Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no…

— Andre Comte-Sponville

There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization,…

— Wendell Berry

“We’d all lost ourselves and found something far more significant together. We reached with gaping wounds for a healing we desired so…

— Christopher Hawke

Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the…

— Hubertine Auclert

So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that…

— Alexander MacLaren

“I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am…

— W. Somerset Maugham

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that…

— Emily Carr

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how…

— Denise Di Novi

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

— Don Zimmer

Follow your dreams, or you'll spend the rest of your life working for someone else who did.

— Anonymous

Excuses is the surest way to amount to nothing in life, If you desire success, work hard for it.

— Ore Abayomi

No matter how many times I say I don't need a boyfriend, my heart still craves to love someone truly.

— Ira Dominique

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

— Jeremy Northam

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

— Cyril Smith

You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.

— Anonymous

So long as the desires of freedom, peace, and to know stuff exists it will eventually beget drama.

— Isaiah Harden

“Any situation with effort can be morphed to adhere to or represent personal desires.”

— Steven Redhead

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

— Oliver Ellsworth

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

— Brian Tracy

The main challenge is food. I need to zip my mouth and not give in to cravings.

— Angad Bedi

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

— Paul Tillich

...for everything can come to those who have the desire,the drive, the dedication, and the determination." v.c.andrews

— Anonymous

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

— Charles William Eliot