Quotes About Desire

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

High stakes, low stakes, poor or rich - people will find a way to gamble.

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth a response; it calls forth the desire for a bigger scandal.

My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet.

Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.

If you have Katrina Kaif standing in front of you, you will be full of passion. Passion is natural to me where Katrina is concerned.

I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.

From a shallow standpoint, I like nice things.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

What stands out for me are the chances that Cristiano has created and the desire to score that he always has.

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually.

In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Let no man thirst for good beer.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

No man can lose what he never had.