Quotes About Desire

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

If this isn't exactly what went down, it's certainly how it should have happened.

find em, fool em, fuck em, forget em

Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

She submitted patiently to all the handling of Hynes, as if she knew there were no use making any protest – but each day, just before four o'clock in the afternoon, something waked in her, and the training of a lifetime called her. She would tear against the wires of her pen or dash at the fence and try to leap it. She had not forgotten.

I don't ever want another dog. Never! I only want Lassie!

A boatman on the bay, when the day was done and the desire to be at home and at rest became so tangible that he could feel the cold glass in his hand, would see the Babbington water tower above the roofs of the town, burnished by the late sunlight, more magnificent in its way than any cathedral—earthy, not ethereal, speaking of the simple comforts of this life, of home, a shower, a comfy chair, a full glass, a full stomach.

You have to dream dreams to live dreams.

but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that.

It takes God to desire God.

God's gospel stirs desire in us, which leads to our working—through His strength, on His desired goals for our lives.

If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?]

Wilberforce simply got caught up in the proceedings below and a desire bloomed in him to join the debate and say for the historical record what he was already thinking; perhaps he thought he might do as well as those extemporizing down on the floor and wished to try.

the burning desire to tell the story of my dream was such that an hour seemed like an eternity.

We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful

Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful.

Desire and imagination have the potential to position a person for greatness