Desire Quotes - page 3

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)
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. View quote
Norman Mailer
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. View quote
Epictetus
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. View quote
Livy
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey. View quote
Brian Molko
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. (Willa Cather)
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. View quote
Howard H. Aiken
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
If you desire many things, many things will seem few. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. View quote
E. B. White
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. View quote
Nicole Kidman
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. View quote
Rumi
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! (Karl Kraus)
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. View quote
Denis Diderot
Desire is half of life indifference is half of death. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. View quote
Stendhal
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. View quote
Patti Smith