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Quotes About Desire

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
~ Hattie McDaniel
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
~ Denis Diderot
Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.
~ Jeff Buckley
I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it
~ Aristotle
The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch.
~ Method Man
Our feelings are energy, so when you find the energy you want you can attach it to a desire.
~ Linda Armstrong
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
~ Ernest Holmes
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
~ Rumi
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
~ Napoleon Hill
It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.
~ Anouk Aimee
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
~ Charles Dickens
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
~ D. H. Lawrence
As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
~ Robert Browning
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving
~ D.T. Suzuki
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
~ Robert Breault
Our desire is not only to SEE glory, but to participate in the glory we see.
~ C. S. Lewis
Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
~ Peter J. Carroll
The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.
~ John Cowper Powys
I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.
~ Unknown
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib