Desires Quotes

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.