Quotes About Desires

I have trouble asking for what I want, especially when it comes to men. If you don't ask for what you want, how do you get it? Felicia asked. If you're relying on him guessing, you're sabotaging your own happiness.

Everyone gets to have dreams. Not just you.

Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give?

I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.

Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all. We informed you in six seconds that you needed something you didn't know you lacked. We made you want anything that anyone willing to pay us wanted you to want. We were hired guns of the human soul. We pulled the strings on the people across the land and by god they got to their feet and they danced for us.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [...] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.

Perhaps understanding was more important than Love, and perhaps the highest form of understanding was the understanding of oneself, one's motives and desires and capabilities. Constance thought about this but the idea didn't appeal to her much. She dismissed it.

y hablaban de intenciones y proyectos, convencidos, como sólo pueden estarlo los amantes nuevos, de que decir lo que uno quiere es lo mismo que decir quién es.

That's how he saw the contradictory and even unbearable situation of being enclosed in a language that didn't think like he did but like his father: that's where those desires to rebel against his own home came from.

hablaban de intenciones y proyectos, convencidos, como sólo pueden estarlo los amantes nuevos, de que decir lo que uno quiere es lo mismo que decir quién es.

nadie capta la importancia de lo que pasa al mismo tiempo que le está pasando. Si se me apareciera un genio con lo de los deseos, yo pediría ése, saber reconocer las cosas que van a ser importantes después.

We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.

Better to live with the man she loved than to have children with one she didn't.

Do you think that there is a corner of this Earth that you could travel to far away enough to free me from this torment? I am a gentleman. My father raised me to act with honor, but that honor is hanging by a thread that grows more precarious with every moment I spend in your presence. You are the bane of my existence, and the object of all my desires.

I wanted 'Comme si' to immediately indicate that something changed in my life, mainly because I became the hero of my own desires instead of just dreaming about them.

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

Some leaders may be honest and good but unwise in legislation they choose to support. Others may possess wisdom but be dishonest and unvirtuous. We must be concerted in our desires and efforts to see men and women represent us who possess all three of these qualities.