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Quotes About Desire

I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves.
~ William Ury
Of all the preferences that evolution gave us, I suspect the desire to share the contents of our minds played the single most important role in elevating us to the top of the food chain.* We are the fiercest predator on the planet by virtue of the power of our minds, but even human minds aren't that special on their own.
~ William Von Hippel
I said," Pat repeated, "I'd sure like to fuck you.
~ William W. Johnstone
I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.
~ William Wilberforce
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
~ William Wycherley
For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.
~ William Wycherley
Men lies about that,Some of 'em cries about that,Some of 'em dies about that,Everybody fightin' about a spoonful,That spoon, that spoon, that.
~ Willie Dixon
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
~ Willie Nelson
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
~ Williston Fish
I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.
~ Willy Russell
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
~ Wim Wenders
No Water made her want to be taken, which was exciting and frightening. Crazy Horse made her want to give, which was fulfilling. She
~ Win Blevins
But facts fall short of truth, because truth includes the yearnings of the human heart—
~ Win Blevins
Their deepest desire—believe me about this—is to change our way of living. Their deepest desire is to make us like them. I swear it." Tasunke
~ Win Blevins
The need to break her, to make her move to the touch of his harness, pumped through him like hot blood and bile. No
~ Win Blevins
Sucede así, afirma, porque la «eficacia mental» absoluta surge de la combinación de diversas facultades, la más importante de las cuales no es la atención, sino «la intensidad del deseo y la pasión».
~ Winifred Gallagher
God, thought Ross, it does work, and unfairly; but I want her, not any other, not the most beautiful eighteen-year-old damsel born out of a sea-shell, not the most seductive houri of any sultan's harem; I want her with her familiar gestures and her shining smile and her scarred knees, and I know she wants me in just the same way, and if there's any happiness more complete than this I don't know it and am not sure I even want it.
~ Winston Graham
No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.
~ Winston Graham
The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother — and they'll settle for a puppy every time.
~ Winston Pendelton
To love the world is to feed on the dead things condemned and judged by God.
~ Witness Lee
There is no doubt that we love the Lord and are seeking Him, but our loving and seeking the Lord is with a complicated heart.
~ Witness Lee
some are willing to help others enter into the land of Canaan to reach God's glorious goal, but they have no desire to enter into God's glorious goal to inherit the land themselves.
~ Witness Lee
Lord Jesus, I love You. I want to live in Your presence. I want to walk with You because I love You.
~ Witness Lee
I even stopped walking to give some thought to the fact that everyone, after all, wants to be himself, so I too want to be myself, for example who would love syphilis, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, a syphilitic man also wants to be himself, namely a syphilitic, it is easy to say "I want to be well again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to say "I don't want to be who I am.
~ Witold Gombrowicz