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Quotes About Desire

I have more care to stay than will to go.
~ William Shakespeare
I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.
~ Yanik Silver
And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
The easiest way to lose something is to want it too badly.
~ Zach Braff
I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
~ Zach Braff
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
~ Zadie Smith
If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
~ Zoe Kazan
I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."
~ Zoe Saldana
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
~ Zooey Deschanel
If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.
~ Harold Ramis
I always write the pieces I want to write.
~ Harrison Birtwistle
Girls liking bad boys is the cookie jar complex. When somebody tells you you can't have a cookie, you want a cookie. But I live in a bad-boy world, artistically. All the jazz boys are bad boys.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.
~ Hee-seop Choi
The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
~ Henri Nouwen
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.
~ Henry Louis Gates
I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.
~ Henry Rollins
There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.
~ Henry Selick
Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
~ Herbert Beerbohm Tree