Desire Quotes - page 7

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. (Pierre Corneille)
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? View quote
Walt Whitman
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. View quote
Aristotle
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. View quote
Aristotle
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. View quote
Socrates
Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves. View quote
Milan Kundera
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. View quote
Tony Blair
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. (A. B. Yehoshua)
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor. View quote
Manuel Puig
In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. View quote
Mitchell Zuckoff
Does something truly speak to me from beyond the void, or is it merely my own desire? View quote
Norman Spinrad
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. View quote
Pierre Loti
Desire, she realized, was a thick fog that could completely obscure reality. View quote
Steve Perry
Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire. View quote
Shari Arison
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field. View quote
Dan Ariely
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people. (Eisaku Sato)
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. View quote
Elihu Root
Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. View quote
Hjalmar Branting