Quotes About Desire

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Evolution leads the way through desire.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

If you spent your weekends in the clubs, you could see the change in the eyes of the people. They became merciless, in a way, in their desire to be entertained.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?