Quotes About Desire

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.

While we are pushed by drives, we are pulled by meaning, and

As thinking is a process of judgment, the final element in this person's type is "Judgment." They are ENTJs. Other people's final letter is P for "Perception," indicating their strong desire to understand better.

What drives them, more than rewards, is the desire to find or create order where there was none before.

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

Each day the pair would meet at 2pm at the exact halfway point between the villages and stand a hundred yards apart, staring longingly at each other, yearning for the time when the pestilence would pass.

John suppressed his desire to snap back and shock. It wasn't even that. His desire, almost physical, to speak of what he and Frank had done, we doing. He worried that his experiences would not be fully legible until then, even to himself. He wished to make them permanent, whole, to give them a place in the world. Every day, memories tugged fiercely for release. Words, details, salivated on his tongue.

There is a strange thing about anticipation," Fionchadd told him. "It is generally both more and less than the actuality that follows. A thing desired is rarely as pleasant to possess as it is to anticipate; a thing dreaded is rarely so foul.

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.

There definitely were times, and I think Michael would say the same thing, where I hated him. We were at odds at times. Even when I loathed him, there were still times when I was like, 'God, I wish I was with him.'

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

I want to go play behind that great offensive line they have down in Dallas.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.