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Quotes About Desire

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
~ Sam Mendes
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
~ St. Jerome
You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.
~ Tama J. Kieves
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
~ Tennessee Williams
Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.
~ Hilaire Belloc
There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.
~ James Goodnight
You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.
~ Laura Lee
Sensuality takes planning and work.
~ Mason Cooley
The greater the value of the object desired, the greater the effort required in its attainment.
~ Rudger Clawson
Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.
~ Randy Alcorn
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.
~ Sylvia Plath
The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
~ Donald Miller
Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing.
~ John Kessel
I love the way you work out," I whisper. "I love the way you work me.
~ Katy Evans
As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
~ Michelle Fairley
Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.
~ Nelly Furtado
If I do continue to have the opportunity to work in Iran, that's very much what I'd prefer to do.
~ Abbas Kiarostami