Desire Quotes

I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

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.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

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

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.