Desire Quotes

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Desire is important.

You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

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

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

When desire dies, fear is born.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.