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Quotes About Desire

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.
~ John Mason Brown
A good actor just wants to deliver the writing to the audience who've paid that night. There's an agonising desire to get it right.
~ Prunella Scales
I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it's always a good deal different than you expect it.
~ Alice Munro
Dunga has a very aggressive style with a good deal of desire and ambition to win. He wants that to resonate throughout his team.
~ Lucas Moura
Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.
~ Ray Bradbury
My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.
~ Armin Zoggeler
In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.
~ Amanda Peet
I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.
~ Astro
The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
~ Karl Ove Knausgard
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
I get nervous every match, before the match especially. But I think it's a good sign. That means you want to win.
~ Kei Nishikori
If it's a good story or if it's a character I want to act in, I end up wanting to do it.
~ Kwak Dong-yeon
I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.
~ Peter Hedges
I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.
~ Chris Coleman
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
~ Alan Furst
The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.
~ Julian Clary
When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing.
~ Jane Seymour
I guess it's a good thing to know that I am wanted.
~ Kemba Walker
Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things.
~ Robert Coppola Schwartzman
We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.
~ Louise Wilson
My writing has always been more out of the need to write a movie rather than me being a good writer.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
this final and long longed-for job: to be unhappy without doing evil.
~ Franz Wright
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
~ Frederick Buechner
It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.
~ Frederick Buechner