Quotes About Desire

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Reaction" is convenient verbal shorthand for "I desire to behave in a particular way."—I may not act, you understand. But the impulse is with me. If, magically, all my restraints and inhibitions were to vanish, I'd embrace the woman, soothe the dog, throw out the cereal, weep or laugh or throw a temper tantrum.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.

I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive.

To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.

Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn't know you wanted and then once you get it, you can't imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.

I think I wished for you all of my life.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.

Sexual touch is the dessert of married life!

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life.