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Quotes About Desire

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.
~ Jack White
I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.
~ Janet Fitch
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
~ Jay Saunders Redding
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
~ Jeanette Winterson
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Wild men are so enormously attractive.
~ Jo Brand
Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.
~ Johann Baptist Metz
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
~ John Donne
One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.
~ John Masefield
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.
~ John Steinbeck
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
~ Carol Leifer
I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.
~ Katie Holmes
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
~ Michael Bergin
I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.
~ Stephen Dorff
I've always wanted to be a mom.
~ Holly Madison
I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
~ Patti Stanger
Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.
~ Bob Marley
Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts
~ Fabolous
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.
~ Rumi