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Quotes About Desire

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
~ Tamora Pierce
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
~ Tennessee Williams
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
~ Tennessee Williams
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
~ Thomas a Kempis
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
~ Thomas Hobbes
War ought to be no man's wish.
~ Thomas Paine
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
~ Tom Stoppard
I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.
~ Victoria Abril
Every man makes a god of his own desire
~ Virgil
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
~ William Hazlitt
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
~ William Shakespeare
I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
~ William Shakespeare
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.
~ Henry Cuyler Bunner
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
~ Adam Smith
I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
~ Alex Pettyfer
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
~ Alexander Wilson
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
~ Andre Gide
The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
~ Aristotle
All men desire by nature to know.
~ Aristotle
Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.
~ Bram Stoker
I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.
~ Carrie Snow