Quotes About Desire

When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

You gotta understand: I'm a man with needs that needs fulfilling. And if you ain't with it, somebody else is willing.

I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

It's easier to look sexy when you're thinking of one man in particular.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.