Desire Quotes - page 8

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. (Christopher Lasch)
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. View quote
Lauren Groff
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. View quote
Louis L'Amour
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard. View quote
Ed O'Brien
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. View quote
Ellen Glasgow
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write. View quote
Hugh Prather
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. View quote
Arthur Keith
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. View quote
Bill Shoemaker
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much. (Billy Sheehan)
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky. View quote
Clyde Tombaugh
My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. View quote
Compay Segundo
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. View quote
David Brainerd
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. View quote
Federica Montseny
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced. View quote
Nick Rahall
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. View quote
Russell Banks
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. View quote
Tanya Tucker
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother. View quote
Tanya Tucker
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man. (Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi)
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms. View quote
Valerie Solanas
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. View quote
Michael Pollan
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with what-or who-is available. Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards. In Chamfort's words, 'It is sometimes said of a man who lives alone that he does not like society. This is like saying of a man that he does not like going for walks because he is not fond of walking at night in the forêt de Bondy. View quote
Alain de Botton