Best 5910 quotes in «desire quotes» category

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you." - Jean-Claude

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?

I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet.

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.

I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

I haven`t prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or a job, or deserved more, and just never made it through somehow. I've always been really fiercely tethered to that. You know, I've been very lucky. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.