Quotes About Desires

The greatest crimes are committed ... for obtaining or securing the objects of ill-regulated desires, and senseless, because insatiable, passions.

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Only a shift to intrinsic goals will give you what you really want, and prepare you to get on the second curve, which requires relationships and sharing wisdom in the spirit of love.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.

I love that there are all these macho guy actors out there that have secret desires to be on 'Glee.'

I have so many goals.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

The conduct of men," John Adams noted, "is much more governed by their passions than by their interests;

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason

By saying 'God sees into the heart' it denies the deepest and the highest desires of life and takes God for the enemy of life. The saint in whom God takes pleasure is the ideal castrate. Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.