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Quotes About Desire

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
~ William Godwin
This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
~ Frank Ocean
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
~ Winston Churchill
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
~ Jeanne Moreau
I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.
~ Jimmy Swaggart
I prefer men to cauliflowers
~ Virginia Woolf
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
~ Robert Bolt
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
~ Chief Joseph
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
~ Little Richard
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
~ James Allen
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
~ Mark Twain
Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.
~ Emily Dickinson
When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.
~ Percy Sledge
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
~ George Mason
Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.
~ Solomon
A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection
~ Jack Butler Yeats
Man, the feeling of the make is something that I can't put to words, it's the very best feeling in the world. I just chase that, it's a very real feeling and straight up, I am addicted to it.
~ Jeremy Jones
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
~ Robin Williams
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
~ Adolf Loos
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
~ John Donne
Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.
~ John Owen
It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.
~ Charles Hodge