Quotes about desire
desire moments given
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. Stephen Covey
desire purpose betrayed
Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure. Stanislaw Lem
desire
Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious. Sun Tzu
desire trying want
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. Mick Jagger
desire trying care
You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it. Seth Godin
desire problem satisfied
The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. Slavoj Zizek
desire impossible making-peace
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. Norman Angell
desire merit praise
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it. Norm MacDonald
desire matter likes
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied. Miguel de Cervantes
desire hazards blind
Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises. Marie de France
desire want partners
The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do! Theodore Roethke
desire facts conform
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts. Margaret Drabble
desire favors crosses
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold. Max Lucado
desire answers molecules
No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules Meg Cabot
desire stronger records
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut. Max Beckmann
desire drs needs
You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire. Matthew Quick
desire needs action
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
desire trouble knows
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire. Plautus
desire type terrible
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless. Plato
desire conditions
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
desire doe fit
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
desire poverty wealth
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
desire levels needs
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it. Philip Seymour Hoffman
desire steps right-direction
Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction. Paula Deen
desire want accepting-yourself
It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be. Laura Marling
desire want enough
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. John Vanbrugh
desire principles institutions
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them John Rawls
desire liberty equal
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
desire speak christ
Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him. Martin Luther
desire spirit changed
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
desire collaboration study
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. Nicole Kidman
desire taste lips
She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires Nick Bantock
desire impossible unlawful
Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. Philip Sidney