Desire quotes

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Well, who wouldn't want to be with their greatest desire?

- Amenadiel

The best thing to do is always to follow your greatest desire.

- Lucifer Morningstar

Desire shouldn't be contained, it's unnatural.

- Lucifer Morningstar

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

- Ida Lupino

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.

- Nelson A. Miles

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

- Denis Johnson

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

- Samuel Alexander

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

- Swami Sivananda

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

- George W. Bush

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

- Joshua A. Norton

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

- Don Zimmer

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

- Roland Barthes

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

- David Ricardo

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

- Edward Gibbon

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

- David Brainerd

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

- Samuel Butler

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

- Hattie McDaniel

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.

- Gustav Stresemann

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

- Thucydides

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- Walter Scott

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

- Lord Byron

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

- Brendan Fraser

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

- Anne Rice

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

- John Pomfret

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

- Nigel Mansell

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

- Dick Gephardt

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

- F. Murray Abraham

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

- Coventry Patmore

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

- Lech Walesa