All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better. — Charles Buxton Copy Share Image
“The desire for carnal possession quickly cools, whereas the desire to own land never quits the heart of man.” — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require. — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“And though he has watched a decent age pass by, a man will sometimes still desire the world.” — Melinda Haynes Copy Share Image
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't get what we want when we want it, because it's not the right time for us to get it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
You my friend, can achieve any dreams you want, if you follow through. Find something you REALLY love, work with it &… — Kristen Farah Copy Share Image
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
With debt free college there is absolutely no incentive to rein in administrative costs when the government is foolishly pushing everyone to… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a perfect inverse ratio mathematically between something that you desire and to get it. Don't desire so much for not… — Kadir Yildiz Copy Share Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
“It happens so seldom; I must catch and keep this slender yearning, a rare beetle in a jam-jar trap. But mustering will… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When you combine desire and faith to that it is in which you aspire to, you send an proactive force into the… — Will Barnes Copy Share Image
“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“He stared into the fast-flowing waters and contemplated the tragedy of desire.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.” — Jeff Swanson Copy Share Image
You must be able to see yourself, with your inner eye, already in possession of the good you desire. — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
“No one is mocked with the yearning for that which they have no ability to attain.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.” — Solas Copy Share Image
“the romance of letting an individual experience of desire take precedence over a categorical one.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
