Quotes About Desire

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

I haven't been in a position to be a free agent or know what that is like and then to have the chance to go where you want to go. That's always been - I feel, with players, they want that option.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

Every meal I eat, I be like, 'Can I get some orange juice?'

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.

When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

What I wanted originally was six kids.

We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.

Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

I'd like to win an Oscar.

What I really want is an Oscar.

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

I was angry because I see other kids with things that I wanted: they had good parents, they had clothes, they always had food and extra money, and I wasn't one of those kids.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be - or as John Doe says in 'Seven,' 'We are not what was intended.'

I don't dream small. But then, what are we without our dreams?