Quotes About Desire

The love of money is the root of all evil." The other said, "The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Too much greed, however, as anything in excess can be, is not good.

I just want you boys to have a chance to avoid the trap caused by those two emotions, fear and desire.

winners do is focus on what they want. Losers seem to focus on what they don't want.

that what winners do is focus on what they want. Losers seem to focus on what they don't want.

Todo mundo quiere irse al cielo, pero nadie quiere morir.

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highly paid slave.

I would live in a world of infinite abundance, a world where I could have anything I wanted.

First, the fear of being without money motivates us to work hard, and then once we get that paycheck, greed or desire starts us thinking about all the wonderful things money can buy. The pattern is then set.

You see, true learning takes energy, passion, and a burning desire.

Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

You see, she concluded miserably, when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it…

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send

The boys like me as a pal but I don't believe anyone will ever really fall in love with me. Nonsense, said Emily reassuringly. Nine out of ten men will fall in love with you. But it will be the tenth I'll want, persisted Ilse gloomily.