Desire Quotes · Page 88

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

— Mark Twain

A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

— Adi Shankar

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

— David Hume

Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.

— Bertrand Russell

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

— Orson Scott Card

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

— John Eldredge

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need…

— Robin Hobb

I have no desire to work my adrenal glands any harder than necessary. I like lazing around; it's pretty important to my…

— Greg Davies

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together…

— Harry S Truman

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the…

— Barry Schwartz

“Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we don’t get…

— Kurt W. Bubna

I have found that people who have a passion or a strong will for what they want to achieve, and who do…

— Wayne Dyer

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”,…

— Pope Francis

“Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the…

— Jonathan Franzen

If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and…

— Al-Ghazali

“Manifesting your desires requires an understanding of the universe’s abundance and inherently giving nature. If you ask from a position of fear…

— Stephen Richards

“She hauls her desire from the anguish of thorns, whispering: sunlight abides in you. She is followed by the aroma of a…

— Fatena Al-Gharra

Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,…

— Socrates

I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting…

— Nicole Kidman

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know…

— Chris Christie

If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what…

— Roger Ebert

“I wished his question was, Wanna know what it's like to be the one who enters? because I do and I wish…

— Chelsea Hodson

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

— John Dewey

“Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync.”

— Lorii Myers

“The world was such a different place, but there were the same stars, the same kinds of yearnings beneath them.”

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love

— Lucy Powell

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

— William Blake

“Believe, really believe, that what you desire is here and available to you. And you can have it all.”

— Jen Sincero

She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

— Phil Ochs

“An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.”

— Jean Vanier

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

— Dante Alighieri

I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

— Liam Neeson

Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.

— Oriah Dreamer

Every Morning is the opportunity to rise with more power, more determination and achieve what you desire.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

— Anonymous

Sometimes we need to be a little bit selfish to get what our hearts desire even if it means hurting someone.

— Kaya

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

— John Dryden

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott