Desire Quotes · Page 92

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

— Napoleon Hill

“‎All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.”

— William Lavender

“Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.”

— Gita Mehta

Sometimes you worry when young kids get too much too early are they going to lose that hunger and desire?

— Darren Bent

“The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire.”

— Missy Lyons

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

— Kevin Costner

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown…

— Anonymous

A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.

— Hugh W. Pinnock

Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone.…

— Agatha of Sicily

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my…

— William Shakespeare

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider…

— Jane Austen

Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and…

— Bodhidharma

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the…

— James Branch Cabell

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will…

— C. S. Lewis

Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with…

— Anonymous

The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within…

— Ambrose

I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of…

— John Maus

It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the…

— Sylvia Boorstein

“When in my early twenties, I first heard Ghalib’s ‘Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi’ in Jagjit Singh’s rendition for the TV serial Ghalib, I…

— Arundhati Ghosh

Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion…

— Anne Fontaine

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion…

— David Bentley Hart

There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and…

— Joshua Ferris

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

— Sharon Shinn

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

— Anonymous

I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not.

— Ulysses S. Grant

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

— Stephen Colbert

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

— Leo Hindery

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

— Jim Trelease

“There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.”

— Joe Hill

The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated.

— Vikrant Parsai

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

— Gautama Buddha

“thrilled by the dark look of desire. She thrived on men’s desire for her. It made the sexual high that much greater”

— Jasmine Haynes

“There were so many things mingled in his expression--yearning, disappointment, and yes, love.”

— Claire Cross

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

— Jane Smiley

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

— Gore Vidal