Desires Quotes

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

We're way too much the same person, Larry. I mean, you know, way too much the same person. We have basically the same attitudes, desires, drives. And we see ourselves the same way.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.