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Quotes About Desire

Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do.
~ Norm Parker
Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.
~ Patrick Ewing
Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.
~ Paullina Simons
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
~ Paulo Coelho
Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen.
~ Paulo Coelho
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
~ Peter Camejo
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
~ Peter McWilliams
No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.
~ Peter Tork
Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.
~ Plato
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
~ Ogden Nash
Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.
~ Ogden Nash
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
~ Oscar Robertson
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.
~ Rajneesh
I'm just like a giant candy cane, the ladies want to lick me all over.
~ Raven
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.
~ Ray Bradbury
Gratitude is a powerful process for shifting your energy and bringing more of what you want into your life. Be grateful for what you already have, and you will attract more good things.
~ Rhonda Byrne
When you emit the perfect frequency of what you want, the perfect people, circumstances, and events will be attracted to you and delivered!
~ Rhonda Byrne
If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.
~ Richard Rogers
Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It's like a religion. It's terrifying. No one will ever want to sleep with you.
~ Richard Siken
The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.
~ Rick Dees
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
~ Ricky Gervais
You either have a baby, want a baby, or don't want a baby, but you don't nothing a baby if you're in your 30s or 40s.
~ Helen Hunt
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
~ Henry Miller