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Quotes About Desire

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
~ Swami Sivananda
If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.
~ Blake Shelton
All human activity is prompted by desire.
~ Bertrand Russell
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
~ Epictetus
Your mouth is the best thing that ever happened to my mouth. -Zane Cutter
~ Cherry Adair
The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.
~ Marshall Sylver
Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.
~ Burgess Meredith
Working with my brother is something that I've always wanted to do. He's one of my best friends.
~ Matt Czuchry
The best things beyond their measure cloy.
~ Homer
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
~ Ann Aguirre
Rule number three: Best friends always think you deserve the best guy even if the best guy barely knows you exist.
~ Candace Bushnell
The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
~ George Best
We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.
~ Glen Duncan
All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
~ Jack Nicklaus
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
~ Douglas Coupland
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
~ Ovid
On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!
~ Akshay Kumar
The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
~ Ben Jonson
Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!
~ Charles M. Schulz
My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.
~ Sam Palladio
I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.
~ George Bernard Shaw
So how did he look at me?" "Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.
~ Karen Marie Moning