Desire Quotes - page 98

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. (Leslie Charteris)
Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do. View quote
Lisa Leslie
My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement. View quote
Lisa Whelchel
What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about. View quote
Lou Doillon
The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless. View quote
Lydia Lunch
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! View quote
Lea Thompson
Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire. View quote
Marilyn French
Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ. View quote
Mark Batterson
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich. View quote
Mark Pagel
One must desire something to be alive. View quote
Margaret Deland
My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long. (Armin Zoggeler)
I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded me that the Browns were in a sort of a jam, and it was up to me, as an old standby, to do what I could. View quote
Bobby Wallace
Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation. View quote
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another. View quote
Caroline Shaw
It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.' View quote
Caterina Scorsone
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. View quote
Channing Pollock
Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work. View quote
Diego Giacometti
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. View quote
Douglas Haig
I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future. View quote
Francesco Quinn
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. View quote
Guy Johnson
I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school. (Harvey Mason, Jr.)
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration. View quote
Jamie Johnson
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. View quote
John McDonald
Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you. View quote
John Schneider
I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless. View quote
Jon Beason