Quotes About Desire

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

Great men grow tired of contentedness.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.