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Quotes About Desire

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
~ Carrie Nation
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?
~ Alexander von Humboldt
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
~ Robert Johnson
Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.
~ John Eldredge, Wild At Heart
You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.
~ Rae Dawn Chong
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars
~ Meyer Lansky
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
~ Lucille Ball
Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.
~ Watchman Nee
Poor is the man who desires a lot
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
~ Elayne Boosler
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.
~ Eric Berne
A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.
~ Dax Shepard
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?
~ Christina Rossetti
Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.
~ Hugh Black
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
~ Alexander Pushkin
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.
~ Ivo Andric
I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
~ Salma Hayek
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
~ Douglas McGregor