Quotes About Desire

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

I wanted to be a monk at some time in my life, or a priest, so there was a kind of reflex quite early on not to be attached to anything that might be taken away.

I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

If you live under a system that claims to have high ideals but seems ineradicably opposed to your own people's flourishing, the desire for idealistic reform within the system has to coexist with an openness to more radical possibilities.

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

Chocolates are a must have in my refrigerator.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training - I'm always guided by that desire to conquer, to win.

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

You want to play, you don't want to be on the bench, I'm no different to anyone else in that regard.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

What a footballer wants above all else is to win, regardless of who the coach is.

When you really want something, regardless of what it is, you don't always have to have the fanciest gear or the latest technology, or the greatest, latest stuff.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

Yes, I want kids. I don't know that I'll ever be ready. But, I'll certainly want them. I'll have them regardless of whether I am ready, I think. I just don't have a timeframe on it yet.

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

All the foreign movies we saw about love affected me and my generation. Now we no longer want to die for the regime, we want to die for love.

I have nothing but regret that I cannot continue to behave the way I behaved all my life, and I can't wait for a chance to behave immoderately again.

I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America.

A regret? That I never played for Manchester United, I'd have liked that.