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Quotes About Desires

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.
~ Jerry Pournelle
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
~ Juvenal
'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
~ Zadie Smith
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.
~ Juvenal
The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
~ Juvenal
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.
~ William Macneile Dixon
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express
~ Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.
~ Margaret Fuller
Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.
~ Mason Cooley
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
~ Max Muller
What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
~ Max Muller
When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.
~ Melina Marchetta
The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.
~ Napoleon Hill
There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.
~ Nate Lowman
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
~ Nellie McKay
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
Desires stay unaware of man's fragile existence authored by scarcity
~ Suman Pokhrel
Don't limit your imagination, the best part of your life, is living your desires.
~ Ebelsain Villegas
Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.
~ Unknown
Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans.
~ Elizabeth George
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
~ W.H. Auden
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
~ Rebecca West