Quotes About Desire

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Death holds no allure for me, Elena." The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. "Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world