Desire Quotes - Page 109

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things. So it made sense to me to reflect the human condition that not every action has an explanation. We act, and then later maybe come to an understanding about it, or maybe not.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Fear is the fatal killer of desire.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.