Quotes About Desire

Humility is what we want other people to have.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

It's not that people want too much, it's that they want too little.

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is simple. "To want.

Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.

When you love someone, what they want is the best that you can give them.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I've dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.