Top 100 Quotes About The Desire
#1. Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
Horace
#2. I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.
Daniel Snyder
#3. People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.
Lawrence Thornton
#4. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#5. There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.
Henry Selick
#6. God awaits us with open arms; we need only to take a step toward him like the Prodigal Son. But if, weak as we are, we don't have the strength to take that step, just the desire to take it is enough.
Andrea Tornielli
#7. The desire for reassurance. And, equally, to be reassured. (The itch to ask whether I'm still loved; and the itch to say, I love you, half-fearing that the other has forgotten, since the last time I said it.)
Susan Sontag
#8. Desire for increased wealth is not evil ... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
Wallace D. Wattles
#9. You know,
That the only difference,
Between, you n' I,
Is the flavour, of choice,
And the dimension, of thoughts,
Through the desire, of our eyes,
Ashley Byrnes
#10. James could do all this because he had made a bargain with himself: he wouldn't try to get killed, nor would he try to survive. He could do all this because he felt terribly sorry for the men he rescued. They harbored the saddest and most foolish desire of all. The desire to go on living.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#11. with the abiding in Him. It is with the desire
Andrew Murray
#12. Just because the yogis went into the mountains to meditate does not mean you have to, too. One can meditate anywhere and at any time. You only require one thing, the desire.
Poonam Dhandhania
#13. The two desires struggle within me: the desire to be safe, and the desire to know. I cannot tell which one will win.
Ally Condie
#14. Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#15. It is often forgotten that He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#16. Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Sissela Bok
#17. The desire of Joseph's heart was to see his father and to get all of his family to move to Egypt and to live near him so he could provide for them without reservation and without limitation.
Charles R. Swindoll
#18. I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.
Bill Shoemaker
#19. The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.
Albert Einstein
#20. The desire for liberation arises in human beings at the end of many births, through the ripening of their past virtuous conduct.
Anonymous
#21. The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.
Anuj
#22. The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
P.T. Barnum
#23. When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time
the interactive video game.
Jay Moore
#24. You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.
Raimund Abraham
#25. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
C.S. Lewis
#26. All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
Charles Garfield
#27. Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.
Frans De Waal
#28. The devil sends disillusionment to such people who have the desire to do something for God
Sunday Adelaja
#29. He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.
Bobby Jones
#30. It is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and thou into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source, out of that separation the desire arises to fall back into the whole, to become one with it.
Rajneesh
#31. She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
Virginia Woolf
#32. Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
Gaston Bachelard
#33. Cities remind us that the desire to escape from the problems of other people by fleeing to a suburb, small town, or a monastery, for that matter, is an unholy thing, and ultimately self-defeating. We can no more escape from other people than we can escape from ourselves.
Kathleen Norris
#34. I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#35. I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books - brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
James Branch Cabell
#37. In the end, the problem of Europe is the same problem that haunted its greatest moment, the Enlightenment. It is the Faustian spirit, the desire to possess everything even at the cost of their souls.
George Friedman
#38. We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
Bertolt Brecht
#39. Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.
Frederick Lenz
#40. Why the desire for death.
A clean paper or pure white wall.
One false line, a scratch, a mistake.
Unerasable. So obscureby
adding million other tracings,
blend it, cover over.
But the original scratch remains,
written in gold blood, shining.
Desire for a Perfect Life.
Jim Morrison
#41. The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills - and as immortal.
James Branch Cabell
#42. This was the mark of deep infatuation, he thought: the desire to watch a woman talk just to see her lips move, to be around her.
Hugh Howey
#43. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.
Rachel Cohn
#44. The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#45. We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.
John Eldredge
#46. No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
Virginia Woolf
#47. Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
Charles Baudelaire
#48. Doubt ... impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, ... faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.
Vincent Bugliosi
#49. She loved his laughter. She loved that he faced the world with a reckless smile on his scarred face. Her heart crashed against her chest. A revelation descended. A revelation unrelated to the desire heating her blood.
Anna Campbell
#50. Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.
Thea Harris
#51. And by midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#52. The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.
Rufus Wainwright
#53. So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.
Justin Cronin
#54. Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
Bertrand Russell
#55. I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
Zaha Hadid
#56. Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock
#57. The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with a loving Father in Heaven and our Savior in the celestial kingdom with our families. We can obtain eternal life only through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel.
Quentin L. Cook
#58. Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#59. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon
#60. Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.
Joseph Addison
#61. We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.
Kofi Annan
#62. Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#63. Any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#64. My desire to speak didn't come from shallow or materialistic intentions. I have the desire to encourage, to help, to share, to teach...and I found the vehicle that worked best for me through which to do that.
Bethanee Epifani
#66. But the fire, the fire. The desire to live. I am not done yet, I am not.
Veronica Roth
#67. Our love of life is only an old liaison of which we do not know how to rid ourselves. Its strength lies in its permanence. But death which severs it will cure us of the desire for immortality.
Marcel Proust
#68. I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
Virginia Woolf
#69. The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
Salvador Dali
#70. All human beings crave that closeness of another. Its the desire to have one person in the world want to be associated with them and to have the person choose and manage to be faithful to only you.
Miss Gath
#71. I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.
John Woolman
#72. I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.
John Lydon
#73. The opposite of patience is aggression - the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space.
Pema Chodron
#74. In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
Agnes Varda
#75. No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
#76. I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore ... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people ... I wish they could get their money back.
Mike Tyson
#77. Anything that brings you to a decision will be answered. The stronger the decision is, the faster it's answered. So if you're in a situation where it seems life or death, and the desire is strong, it is answered now, because it must be answered now to be answered at all.
Esther Hicks
#78. You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else.
Mayra Santos-Febres
#79. Denial and the desire to self-destruct are elemental cousins; mining one yields the other in equal proportion.
Domenica Ruta
#80. The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand
#81. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston
#82. The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.
Italo Calvino
#83. The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.
Jane Addams
#84. The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.
David Berlinski
#85. A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#86. The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.
Mas Oyama
#87. Everyone stumbles through it all the same; the main difference lies not in the lack of dysfunction but in the desire to be dishonest about it. Every family has problems, but only some let you see them. The rest just keep their chaos behind closed doors and out of conversation.
Kevin Breel
#88. In every living thing there is the desire for love.
D.H. Lawrence
#89. When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me."
That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.
Augusten Burroughs
#90. ...the natural force, the core of the struggle to exist is the desire to not just survive, but thrive. And to thrive is to feed on victims, ever more victims...
Steven Erikson
#91. The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential ... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
#92. The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#93. Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
Bertrand Russell
#94. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Henry Hazlitt
#95. I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#96. If a writer has the desire to communicate by writing and be heard, then he necessarily cares about seeing it in print. I suppose it's the difference between masturbation and making love - the real writer wants to touch another person.
Edmund White
#97. Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#98. Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
John Knowles
#99. The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and ( ... ) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.
Thornton Wilder
#100. the desire and hunger for education is the key to real learning.
Jim Stovall
