Desire Quotes

7210 Desire quotes by 3487 unique authors

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia… — Jacques Derrida
The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who… — Thucydides
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they… — Thucydides
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it,… — Unknown Author
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. — Unknown Author
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep… — Polybius
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. — Unknown Author
The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had… — Roger Federer
The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris… — George H. W. Bush
We also share a profound desire for a lasting peace in the Middle East. My Administration is dedicated to achieving this goal, one which will… — George H. W. Bush
Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of… — Ruhollah Khomeini
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only… — Charles Bukowski
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced… — Mikhail Lermontov
It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam. — Mitt Romney
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland… — Mitt Romney
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that… — Eugene Ionesco
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with — Tony Kushner
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the… — Anni Albers
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for… — Wassily Kandinsky
What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves… — Venerable Bede
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire… — Petrarch
Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire. — Theodore Dreiser

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