Quotes About Desire

The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

I want to do a rom-com. For me, where I come from, it would be such a stretch.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

Love is the most elusive thing I know. Always an arm's length away, teasing me and asking me to stretch a bit more and grab it.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

I never feel guilty when I eat cheat food because if I've been quite strict all week, I feel like I deserve it.

I love music more than anything; I don't think I would want to go into a strictly music field.

Ever since I was a presenter on CBBC and used to see the 'Strictly' judges walking around Television Centre, I have wanted to be on the show.

I definitely want to do 'Strictly Come Dancing.'

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

Obviously it is good to think 'this year has been sick' but unfortunately we're human beings so we're always trying to strive for more.

To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

There's how, basically, Son Goku from 'Dragon Ball' doesn't fight for the sake of others but because he wants to fight against strong guys. So once 'Dragon Ball' got animated, at any rate, I've always been dissatisfied with the 'righteous hero'-type portrayal they gave him.

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions.

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.