Quotes about desire
desire world wonder
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. C. S. Lewis
desire delight outrun
The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight. Algernon Charles Swinburne
desire leaves-of-grass speak
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman
desire bread sandwiches
As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich. Sarah Dessen
desire may encounters
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one. Roland Barthes
desire skins language-and-power
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 tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
desire succeed burning
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed. Rod Stewart
desire acting energy
To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. Warren G. Bennis
desire action glory
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself. Saint Basil
desire debtors demand
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor. Saint Augustine
desire may saint
This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.
desire disposition temperance
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
desire family-and-friends cultivating
My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. Zachary Quinto
desire want musician
I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music. Zach Braff
desire and-love reason
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. William Godwin
desire prejudice vote
Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires. William Feather
desire be-careful careful
Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.
desire might unbreakable
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained. William Butler Yeats
desire littles intensity
You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great. Walter Russell
desire body flow
The electric energy which motivates us is not within our bodies at all. It is a part of the universal supply which flows through us from the Universal Source with an intensity set by our desires and our will.
desire
Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.
desire strange found
You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found... Rebecca Solnit
desire pace able
I looked at what my talents and desires are and decided to start my own business. I like the advantage of being able to work at a slower pace if I need to do that and there is no one pressuring me to work faster Rhonda Byrne
desire ability determine
One's desire, not ability, determines success. Vince Lombardi
desire poverty wonder
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself? Vikas Swarup
desire fairy-tale tales
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? Rudyard Kipling
desire
Wanting is the beginning of getting. Rumer Godden
desire enjoy enjoyment
While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases. William Hazlitt
desire directors artistic
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment. W. Somerset Maugham
desire world defiance
I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness. Vladimir Nabokov
desire succeed fear-of-failure
Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed? Zig Ziglar
desire killers
Fear is the fatal killer of desire.
desire finals
Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...] Zadie Smith