Quotes About Desire

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

She gave me a hug and for a second I was embraced by a body that makes me want to go home and never eat again.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

Oh, and she told me that men want only one thing. And on that note, I must give praise and thanks to the powers that be. I don't want much else from them either.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

I'm competitive to a fault, so of course every week I'm just like, "I want to win, I want to do great."

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.