Quotes about desire
desire levels gestures
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. Marya Hornbacher
desire want underestimate
Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?
desire anarchy plunder
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers. Murray Rothbard
desire have-faith pleasure
God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him. Myles Munroe
desire enzymes body
When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.
desire want sake
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows. Moliere
desire needs desperate
We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow. Milton Friedman
desire acting television
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous. Kelsey Grammer
desire getting-older conquer
The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see Julian Clary
desire burning records
The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life. Julian Casablancas
desire hunger states
Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger. Mary Roach
desire violence surrender
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. Marquis de Sade
desire tendencies willing
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves. Mark Epstein
desire goes-on lectures
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. Mary MacLane
desire riches poverty
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. Mark Twain
desire
What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become. Neal A. Maxwell
desire want body
I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. Marguerite Duras
desire watches may
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests. Marguerite Yourcenar
desire wanted feels
I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better. Mikhail Gorbachev
desire common easy
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. Mitchell Zuckoff
desire vietnam flopping
It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam. Mitt Romney
desire path succeed
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
desire sin moments
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God. R. C. Sproul
desire ought
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. Publilius Syrus
desire seems
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
desire impossible should
We should not desire the impossible. Leonardo da Vinci
desire poor
I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
desire periods futurist
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! Lea Thompson
desire burning action
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.
desire burning action
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.
desire age increase
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living Oliver Goldsmith
desire ease natural
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
desire invisible bigs
I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire. Marcus Samuelsson