Desire Quotes · Page 195

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Great desires are like fire, so fierce they keep going higher, never wanting to retire until our strength expires.

— Terry Mark

“...where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road.”

— John Irving

When you're in a relationship you should never put your WANTS before your partners NEEDS.

— Sonya Parker

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

— Heraclitus

Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?

— David Levithan

“She and I will become one someday soon. So much so, that none will know where I begin and she ends. This…

— A.R. Von

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

— Robert Bourassa

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.”

— Sarah Pekkanen

Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to…

— John of the Cross

Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment.

— Tarthang Tulku

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them…

— Suzanne La Follette

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is…

— Erich Fromm

Whereas his father would deliver rambling lectures that were heavy on gold and often disconnected from the political news of the moment,…

— Steve Kornacki

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will…

— Mario Andretti

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,…

— Ludwig von Mises

Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the…

— Anne Waldman

“You need me like ice needs the mountain On which it breeds. Like print needs the page. You move in me like…

— Monica Ferrell

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.…

— Confucius

The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately…

— Kenneth Clark

Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and…

— David Hume

Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal…

— Judith Butler

In everything there needs to be some effort put forth, without putting energy into anything, it will die… Effort, care, gratitude, cherishing…

— Anonymous

I knew it was special from the very start, It envelopes my body, my core, my heart. A shining, uplifting, persistent feeling,…

— Nit

Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?

— Narendra Modi

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

— Deborah Harkness

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

— Andy Rooney

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

— Louis D. Brandeis

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly…

— Jackie Chan

I have this dying desire to be on top. I'm paranoid about it. It's almost a sickness.

— Howie Long

Never lose sight of what you need and what you desire. You might end up with what you never wanted.

— Anonymous

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

— Hannah Arendt

“Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.”

— Andy Paula

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

— Konstantin Ushinsky

“...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.”

— Amin Maalouf

Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods

— Frank E Brennan

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

— Anonymous

I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

— Jamie Sives

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

— Ram Dass