Quotes About Desire

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.

The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.

Soprano, basso, even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

I like to visit New York, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.