Desire quotes

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

- Abraham Lincoln

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.

- John Ensign

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

- Condoleezza Rice

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

- Natalie Goldberg

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

- Todd Gitlin

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

- Michel Foucault

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

- John B. S. Haldane

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

- Edward Dahlberg

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

- Karel Reisz

The point of vision and desire are the same.

- Wallace Stevens

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

- Michael O'Donoghue

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

- Charles Baudelaire

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

- Robert Collier

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

- Maggie Gallagher

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

- Helen Rowland

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

- Bobby Sands

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

- Sylvester Stallone

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

- Henry Hazlitt

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

- Saint Augustine

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

- Josh Lucas

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

- Hannah Arendt

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.

- Mikhail Saakashvili

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

- Ayn Rand

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

- Channing Pollock

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

- Alexander Hamilton

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

- Robert Plant

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

- Napoleon Hill

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

- Jacques Maritain