Desires Quotes

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.