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Quotes About Desire

Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.
~ Angus King
I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.
~ Antonio Gates
God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy.
~ Arina Tanemura
Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.
~ Arjuna Ardagh
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
~ Ben Fountain
I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.
~ Brenna Yovanoff
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
~ Brian Selznick
Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I think you have to write what you want to watch.
~ Bryan Fuller
While every body wants it, most don't want to give it.
~ Buck Rodgers
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don't want it to last.
~ Candace Bushnell
I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.
~ Candace Bushnell
The heart wants what the heart wants
~ Candace Bushnell
maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.
~ Candace Bushnell
My heart always belongs to the one who doesn't want it.
~ Cathy Guisewite
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
~ D. H. Lawrence
In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.
~ Dalai Lama
I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.
~ David
Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.
~ David Gill
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
~ David Mamet
If you're going to hold on tight to your life, better make sure it's exactly the way you want it
~ David Schlussel