Quotes About Desire

In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver.

The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

Society feeds terror and is in turn terrorized; we are afraid to lose, so we consume.

Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.

I drive a Prius, but I dream of the Tesla.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

My whole thing was getting in there with these guys and really pushing their limits. Testing their toughness and their desire.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

I'm desperate to get inside Lucy's pants