Quotes About Desire

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

The warrior knows that he is free to choose his desires, and he makes these decisions with courage, detachment, and - sometimes - with just a touch of madness.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

Let reason govern desire.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch it.

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.