Quotes About Desire

I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Basta de realidades, queremos promesas

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

there may be greater glory in obedience where the desire to obey is less

When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

In politics, we must not escape a single master…but many masters…contentiousness, love of glory, the desire to be first and greatest, and the sickness that produces envy, jealousy, and dissension in abundance.

In whatsoever countrey men are bred (I know not by what sweetnesse of it led), They nourish in their minds a glad desire, Unto their native homes for to retire

every time I am about to follow my heart, I am offered enormous temptation.

A good American goes for it, just does it, slakes it, eats it, kills it, the more the better, damn the torpedoes!

People can be very low for self-interest, Man can do many things for self-interest. Poet Md. Hedaetul Islam

Voy a tener que irme a un planeta sin aire. Porque eres el aire. Eres el aire. Eres el aire. Y el agua. Y los jazmines. Y mi sombra. Y mi canto. ¡Vete! ¿No te han dicho, acaso, que los muertos no regresan? Nunca regresan. Nunca regresan. Nunca regresan.

He is rich enough that wants nothing.

When people get what they want, they haven't a clue what to do with it.

Whatever our desires may be, getting the object of our desire is not the same thing as contentment, which comes from within. In the end, we'll never find complete contentment, a perfect sense of peace, if our mind isn't content and at peace.