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Quotes About Desire

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
~ Juvenal
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.
~ Ken Blackwell
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
~ Richard Barnfield
However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.
~ Richard O'Brien
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
~ Ridgely Torrence
Money ... it's both the most complicated and the most passionate relationship in our lives.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!
~ Sophie Kinsella
There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."
~ Suze Orman
I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.
~ Terence Stamp
Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!
~ Terry Pratchett
I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
~ Tiger Woods
There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
~ Wilbur Smith
You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough.
~ Will Smith
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
~ Will Rogers
Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?
~ Stephen King, Needful Things
Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
~ Roger Ailes
You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do forlove.Myrnin.
~ Rachel Caine, Bite Club
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you everything else. It's up to you to be happy with what you have or not.
~ Neo Shamon
He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.
~ Coco J. Ginger
Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!
~ Stephen Richards
If you try to buy love, you will go bankrupt trying to possess it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
All the material wealth cannot satisfy the soul.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studdedwheelchair.
~ Dorothy Parker