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Quotes About Desire

Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.
~ Ray Davies
Sometimes you want to run away Sometimes you think you do But you never had a dream like this before And you don't want to ask for more Sometimes you leave a mark Before you know the score
~ Ric Ocasek
Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.
~ Robert Fulghum
The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream.
~ Robin Sharma
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
~ Ron Carlson
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
~ Ronald Reagan
You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.
~ Rumi
I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.
~ Russ Meyer
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
~ Saint Augustine
It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.
~ Samuel Johnson
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
~ Sarah Churchwell
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
~ Seth Godin
I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
~ Shahrukh Khan
You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?
~ Shanola Hampton
We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
~ Stanley Hoffmann
Every little thing wants to be loved.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I think a lot of people go in TV talent shows because they want to be famous and not because it's about the music.
~ Susan Ann Sulley
Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'
~ Susannah York
But there was only one kiss that made me feel something stir deep inside. Only one that made me want more. But my head wound started bleeding and he made me lie down.
~ Suzanne Collins
The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
~ Taylor Caldwell
You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.
~ Terry Francona
The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
~ Therese of Lisieux