Desire Quotes - page 4

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. (Henri Matisse)
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
All men desire to be immortal. View quote
Theodore Parker
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. View quote
Bill Cosby
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. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. View quote
Joseph Murphy
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. View quote
Anna Sui
The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. (Karl Menninger)
Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. View quote
Fred Astaire
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. View quote
John Adams
Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn. View quote
James Thurber
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. View quote
Blaise Pascal
If only the desire to see could be as strong as the desire to unsee. View quote
Lars von Trier
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.[16]. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. (Norman Borlaug)
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society. View quote
Rick Santorum
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. View quote
Alexander Pope
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them - the desire to do right - is precisely the same. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray