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Quotes About Desire

His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love. He held nothing back, giving everything, exposing everything.
~ Sylvia Day
If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
~ Tom Stoppard
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
~ William Godwin
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
~ Francis Bacon
Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope.
~ Eugene Utley
Nothing happens easily in our lives. To get something, you have to attract it with the power of your love.
~ Debasish Mridha
The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.
~ Anthony Ryan, Blood Song
Even the purest of souls get ravished and consumed by the most thirsty quintessential desire to possess power.
~ Sirio Berati
Power is given to those who reach to take it & claimed by those who will stop at nothing to fulfill what they believe is their birthright.
~ Saminu Kanti
Being a human is a great power. One can obtain everything. However, it is the greed that harasses him.
~ Dada Bhagwan
If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels.
~ Mayandree Michel, Betrayal
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.
~ Harry Truman
The world has achieved the most of so far, now it is after losing everything in this race of power.
~ Mahrukh
That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?
~ Desiree Williams, Illusionary
What would you sacrifice for power?
~ Kiersten White, And I Darken
O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.
~ John Webster, The White Devil
Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man
~ Zaman Ali, Humanity
We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.
~ Darren Shan, Bec
RUTH: If you take the glass…I'll take you.
~ Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.
~ Jean Baudrillard
You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In
The only thing more compelling than love is power.
~ Claudia Gray, Steadfast
Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.
~ Ally Carter, All Fall Down
Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled
~ Michael Foley