It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
Robert Frost
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
William Shakespeare
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow.
T. S. Eliot
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
Alexander Graham Bell
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publilius Syrus
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
Albert Einstein
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
Marcia Wieder
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you.
Stephen Vizinczey
He who desires is always poor.
Claudianus
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?
Mark Twain
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Mark Twain
If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.
Tom Krause
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
William Shakespeare
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke
The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Sir Francis Bacon
The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Late-learning, I think, is the desire for learning inconsistent with one's advanced age.
Theophrastus
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
Salvador Dali
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Joseph Butler
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis Ferdinand Celine
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Belva Plain
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya Mannes
You are what your deep driving desire is.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows.
Philip Schiller
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
Christopher Lehmann haupt
Desire, ask, believe, receive.
Stella Terrill Mann
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Walt Whitman
It says a lot about David's desire that he was been able to place sixth for being so banged up.
Mike Ritchey
What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others, as you want to be respected by them.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
He has a desire to be a manager if the right situation comes along.
Steve Mandell
Having a strong will and desire is half the battle and probably the bigger half.
Diane Crossan
The search for the truth was hindered by the desire to do damage control.
Melvin Whitley
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
W. Somerset Maugham
I've never had any desire to be 6 feet tall. I'd go around banging my head.
Felix Silla
We are working seriously at this and we should be able to achieve our desire.
Abel Oshevire
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
James Lileks
It reflects the desire and need for community involvement.
Virginia Wilcox
Desire is the essence of a man.
Bernard M. Baruch
I really have a desire to do a certain kind of work, but deliver me from the class who cut up their relatives to see how their corpuscles match up.
Frank Richard Stockton
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes
We have no desire to become involved in a heated conflict. We will do whatever it takes to defend our country.
Sheikh Rashid
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
Natalie Goldberg
The enemy is ever vigilant. He's out there seeking whom he may desire. There have to be more of us.
Ronda Storms
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Sissela Bok
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Stanley Kunitz
It does indicate his desire to stick with the structure of the plan that was agreed upon.
Carol Guthrie
We have been contacted by hourly employees who have expressed a desire to return to work.
Bud Grebey
It's a desire to learn.
Joe Barlow
Have the courage of your desire.
George Gissing
They are very capable, very mature. Their desire to succeed is every bit what it was for our generation and our parents' generation.
Tom O'hare
I do not have the desire or wish to nominate (myself).
Gamal Mubarak
It has been Cynthia's desire to work with children's literacy.
Terry Mcgowan
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
Corporate bonds are being driven by a desire to lock something in before rates go higher.
Frank Fernandez
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill
We're not saying don't fill it out. If that is their personal desire to fill out only some questions, its better to do that than not get counted at all.
John Czwartacki
Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
Willie Shoemaker
. . . I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it.
Charleszetta Waddles
Their desire for getting drugs is greater than their fear of getting arrested.
Richard Nugent
He didn't have superstar written all over him, but he had the desire to play.
Glen Sather
A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.
Tom Morris
Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Wilferd A. Peterson
I had the desire to go to Los Angeles, and it's paid off for me. I can't complain.
Linda Cardellini
Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
John Stuart Mill
Failure doesn't kill you. . . it increases your desire to make something happen.
Kevin Costner
We don't comment on rumors. Marvin respected Chad's desire to have his say.
Jack Brennan
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah
North Americans do have a higher desire for very soft tissues.
Dave Dickson
The Loyola Bateman team is reputably one of the best in the nation, but we believe in the cause of this campaign far more so than the desire to win.
Kerri Driscoll
After we met, we never had any desire to date anyone else. We just knew we were supposed to be together.
Maxine Iceman
Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.
Robert Hass
I really believe in teamwork and competitiveness. I want competitive people. I want people who want to win. I am really competitive, almost too competitive. So I really want them to be competitive and have the desire to win.
Angie Myers
Our main desire is to get the board back up and functioning properly.
Van Shaver
He's full of desire. Besides, his soccer depends more on technique than physique.
Manuel Pellegrini
There is a desire for change. But it's a typically Canadian change ? moderate and quiet.
Warren Kinsella
You can certainly be an artist anywhere, ... But it's helpful to live in a community that has a consciousness of the arts and a desire for visual stimulation.
Amy Fisher
It would be our strong desire that any dispute be settled through dialogue.
Tomohiko Taniguchi
If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.
Della Reese
It's been my desire from the beginning to bring a championship-caliber tournament to Ocala.
Bernadette Castro
I figure it's like something that has to be, before Marvin and me can be content with ourselves. There is a burning desire in me now.
Sugar Ray Leonard
If that is everybody's desire we will have to consider it.
Mahathir Mohamad
The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.
Louis Farrakhan
She can drive you crazy with that desire to be a perfect athlete.
Charles Brooks
I tell myself that his desire to come back into the France team is not as strong as all that.
Guy Forget
It's something intangible. It's a desire to do the right thing.
Calvin Bellamy
It's not our desire to be the cheapest operator.
Jeffrey Citron
We have lots of work, ... I come here only with a desire to make our great country greater.
Jean Schmidt
Discipline. Anthony has that desire to be the best.
Roy Pittman
I admire his willingness and his desire to master the craft to create visual art.
Michael Bingham
She's got a strong desire to go on.
Leslie Peterson
Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
Louis Ginsberg
The state knows that. They have the ability to do that. They just don't have the desire to do that.
John Grele
I think that there is a desire on the part of the city and county to do something special there.
Frank Gehry
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
Ambrose Bierce
I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
Alister Cooke
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….
Bergen Evans
I think they mentally ran strong. I think they had a little more desire in their pace.
Jayme Skay
We aren't a sports bar, and we have no desire to be, but it should be fun.
Scott Parker
If the Nepali people desire, NC is ready for constituent assembly. We will accept whatever the people desire.
Sushil Koirala
Desire and dedication are everything!
Bart Starr
My belief and desire to play has changed dramatically since I got here. Football is fun again.
Mark Bruener
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy
They can then go and plant these trees anywhere they desire.
Kathy Quinn
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Brian Molko
Harper was able to galvanize the Canadians' desire for change.
Michael Behiels
Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
Thomas Troward
They still have to have the desire to go in and do something.
David Carlson
If anyone has a desire to go back home, they do.
William Frey
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre
A desire to experience a larger musical buffet -- I've never wanted to be defined by any one thing.
Antonio Carlos
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman
The enemy can try to do this to us every single day, but it's not going to change our resolve or desire to see things through to the very end.
Richard French
It's a long-term desire that I had to get into teaching.
Sharon Ferguson
Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
Milan Kundera
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
George Muller
I think the biggest thing is the dedication and desire to be very good at anything she does.
Wade Taylor
There's clearly in the whole industry a desire to get bigger.
Tim Winter
Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
Jeff Buckley
No one was really doing it down here before. We started this out of a desire to do something new and challenge ourselves.
Tom O'donnell
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
The Dhammapada
They had the desire and they just didn't want to go home tonight.
Rick Gallegos
Our desire is to consolidate the market as well so we'd be interested in what their view is. Anything could happen.
Mark Wheeler
You can't discount the desire of folks to help out in a crisis.
Guy Williams
It took away my desire and will to be the best bowler in the world.
Chris Hardwick
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Laurence Hope
I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
Thomas Kretschmann
Desire can be violent, hence the arrows. That's the way the ancients thought of desire.
Allen Miller
They have a really strong desire to win. They're very competitive. That comes internally.
Terry Markus
I have a strong desire to see the parks of Allen continue to be a focal point.
Joey Herald
It was the desire. The complete desire. That's what it was. Getting after it.
Peter Diepenbrock
Both parties have a genuine desire to resolve their differences.
Richard Curreri
A Streetcar Named Desire.
Karl Malden
Tomorrow we've got to show up with the same attitude, with the same desire and with the same approach we did today.
Luis Rivera
Seeds don't mean anything. Heart and desire matter now.
Erik Barbon
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