Quotes About Desire

Good dreams don't come cheap You've got to pay for them.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. "Anyone else here feel like swooning?

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

When someone is good, but it doesn't seem like their world will collapse if they don't get the part, it's more appealing. It's like dating someone: You don't want someone who's too into you.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Hunger is good discipline.

I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won't I? in pitiful indecision.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.