Desire Quotes
7210 Desire quotes by 3487 unique authors
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
— James A. Baldwin
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something…
— Christian Bale
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality…
— Alan Ball
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth…
— Johnny Ball
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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to…
— Eric Bana
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I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than…
— Antonio Banderas
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
— James M. Barrie
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the…
— Roland Barthes
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions…
— John Adams
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far…
— Glenn Beck
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious…
— Felix Adler
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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than…
— Mortimer Adler
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Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
— Mortimer Adler
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its…
— Annie Besant
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul…
— Annie Besant
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
— Ambrose Bierce
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