Quotes About Desire

When you achieve something or someone, you don't want to lose the person. I love Malaika but I'm possessive about her.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

I couldn't wait to leave school. So I did it as soon as I possibly could at 16. I had no clue what I wanted to do next other than being at school wasn't it and that I was desperate to make my own way as soon as I could.

I just have such a passion for artistic luxury items. I literally sometimes scream when it comes through the post for me.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd be really fat.

I still love chips. Chips are still my favourite potato dish. I struggle not to have chips every day.

I go through phases where all I want to eat are mashed potato patties with fried eggs, or pasta with meat sauce.

What force is more potent than love?

Boredom and sexual desire are a potent and explosive combination, and people will certainly risk their lives to exit a grey and boring life.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

Sometimes I wish I could just fight at 155 pounds.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

I consistently go back to myself: What am I looking for or wanting to wear myself, right now, that I don't already have? I always figure if I'm looking for it, a lot of guys are.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.