Quotes About Desire

Each Middle East country has their own unique kinds of challenges; but the fundamentals, the desire for democracy and freely elected governments is a common thread throughout.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.

I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.