Cutting Quote by Jonathan Swift

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove…

— Vernon Howard

Everyone have desires, not everyone can control desires from doing it in actions

— KM II

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

— Elias Hicks

Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

— David Lodge

There are some desires that are not desirable.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

— William Blake

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

— C. S. Lewis

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.

— Marcia Wieder

“If we examine what is behind our desires, we can usually get what we want without compromising: love, caring, confidence, respectability, excitement. Compromising is…

— Ellen J. Langer

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

— Creed Bratton

Desire creates the power.

— Raymond Holliwell