Desire Quotes - Page 144

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.

An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

The king, just and prudent, wants only those things which he can get.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

So that would be my input and I'd go off and I'd work on another film, and then I'd catch up with them later on in the year. We just kind of nursed the piece along. There was no timeframe. We didn't have anyone pushing us except ourselves to make the film, and a desire. And then the organic kind of naming of Roger; then it happened really fast.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

There is no thermometer for wants!

When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

Some women attract desire. Others do not.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one wants to see manifest, what one wants to bring into the world, what one desires to have exist.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

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.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.