Quotes About Desire

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

When desire dies, fear is born.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

The key that unlocks energy is desire.