Quotes About Desire

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

I brake for brunettes.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

You know, some people take peace of mind and confuse it with lack of passion.

May the God of peace arouse in all an authentic desire for dialogue and reconciliation. Violence cannot be overcome with violence. Violence is overcome with peace.

Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.