Best 5910 quotes in «desire quotes» category

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel alienated from the motives for an action - "whatever possessed me to do that?". Note, however, that some people feel alienated from the white hairs that recently appeared on their heads - "who put them there?", they might ask the mirror - but the white hairs are still theirs. Similarly, I might feel alienated from an action or a mental state because it does not fit with my visceral self - image.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually respects female desire.

I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. I've never had so many random conversations with people where they're so ready to talk about race, gender, sexual identity, or things that are happening in politics.

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

I entered politics out of a desire to serve, but I have always really wanted to achieve things in the private sector as well. As a father and a husband, that is my primary obligation, and that will always continue, whether I am in the Senate or out of the Senate.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a chemical drug like Viagra is accepted by society and by the world to ignite desire, then what is the problem with my audio-visual drug called cinema which ignites desire? Both are basically doing the same thing!

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

I feel like I'm an explorer, a frontiersman if you will, and I've been able to satisfy that desire in me through music. I've continued to meet people who challenge me and inspire me as friends. I don't even know how to even quantify it in words. I've been very fortunate.

I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

I find that most of wake up day, not because we genuinely 'want' to, but because we have to. We have to be somewhere, do something, answer to or take care of someone. But when you shift your intention and create a genuine desire - event enthusiasm - for waking up in the morning, your entire life changes.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.