Quotes About Desire

Once you get a taste of winning, a taste of the playoffs, you just want to do that even more.

Being in the playoffs and competing, that's what you want as a player.

I want to play for a team that plays every competition to win.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

If players are pleased to come off the pitch, that says they are not interested and don't want to be on there.

I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

Peace is an idea born from hope and the desire to see your children raise a family, walk in a market, and engage in simple pleasures of everyday life without fear.

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

I've always loved the idea of 'Guilty Pleasures.'

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in a lot of ways. It often involved having a lot of kids, losing your autonomy, being in service to a husband and children who were often born at an unremitting pace without the benefit of modern medicine.

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.