Quotes About Desire

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

My favorite episode is where the guy has a relationship with his car. An intimate and sexual and emotional relationship with his car.

Environmental cleanliness begins with individual desire to be clean.

Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.

If we first purify our souls, we desire to dwell in clean surroundings.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy