Quotes About Desire

The less you want, the happier you'll be.

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.

We are taught desire rather than deserve. Just because we want it must mean we are able to get it, right?

I'll never forget, though, as I was walking to my office after the final out a woman came up to me and said, 'You wanted a team in the worst way, and that's exactly what you got.' I never forgot that.

Buy the car you want....buy the best car you can afford!

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

My life needs a rewinderase button. - Calvin

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone and this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away.

Me han dicho que nadie canta la palabra hambre como yo. Ni la palabra amor. Tal vez yo recuerde lo que quieren decir esas palabras. Ni todos los Cadillac y visones del mundo -y he tenido unos cuantos- pueden lograr que las olvide.

Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

But if it's something you want, then time doesn't matter. Time doesn't matter at all.

The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.

The American people want and deserve a space program truly worthy of a nation of pioneers.

I suppose when people are criticising you and saying that you are not really worthy of going to such a club as Liverpool, it gives you a little bit more drive and more desire to prove them wrong. And that can only help you in the long run: make you a little bit tougher mentally.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

People say 'dream big,' that's kind of one of those motivational sayings, but I would dream hard, meaning I just wanted it so badly, I could feel it.

Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.