Desires Quotes

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.

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.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

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