Quotes About Desires

If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

Wishes have voices sometimes.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Shoes and watches are my weaknesses.

You are being intentionally monitored so that your unique biases, your anxieties, your weaknesses, your needs, your desires can be quantified in such a way that a company can seek to exploit that for profit.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

I had rock-star dreams from 8 or 9 almost nonstop. I thought it was going to be like being a god on earth: having as many women as you want whenever you want them, having super powers, being incredibly wealthy, never doing laundry.

It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

Weddings have become an expression not just of our desires but also our ambitions, and so more and more the food at weddings is like the food everywhere else, with the ingredients parsed for purity and the preparation praised for ingenuity and the sushi chef standing where the carving table used to be.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

One day, I hope to have a pot bellied pig and a wombat as pets.

Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.

We consumers have to send a message every day of what we want and what we don't.

What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.

Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

There are desires we haven't named yet, loves so impossible they have to be true. — Richard Jackson, from "Incompleteness," The Heart as Framed: New and Selected Poems (Press 53, 2022)

Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.

Do we have dreams, or do dreams have us?