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Quotes About Desires

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.
~ Kathy Sierra
I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.
~ Kirsten Dunst
Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.
~ Lawrence Fagg
I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.
~ Marva Collins
God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.
~ Max Lucado
Content marketing represents the gap between what brands produce and what consumers actually want.
~ Michael Brenner
We all only have a certain amount of money and that means yes, we have to make choices and sometimes those choices mean we don't get what we want.
~ Michelle Singletary
Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.
~ Mira Nair
Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.
~ Noah Richler
Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
~ P. D. James
You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
~ Pete Rose
It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
All people have similar desires and needs. They only pursue them in different ways.
~ Debasish Mridha
claro que tengo sentimientos. Pero no creo que sean los que tú quieres.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify.
~ Susan Ferrier
It's a matter of logical structure: what is, just is, and any claim about what ought to be is a claim about our own wishes and desires. Why ever should we imagine that the two would be related?
~ Susan Neiman
Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.
~ Susan Patron
This "vision" of the Self is described in the Upanishads as Liberation (moksha). It is a freedom, a release, from doubt, from uncertainty, from the fears attending ignorance, forever. All questions are answered; all desires and causes for sorrow are put to rest; for thereafter, a man knows the secret of all existence. All previous notions of limitation and mortality, all darkness of ignorance, is swept away in the all-illuminating light of Truth:
~ Swami Abhayananda
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.
~ John Piper
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~ Xun Kuang
The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush*
~ Saravana Kumar Murugan
In the heart, silence becomes an echo of unanswered needs
~ Bluenscottish