Desire Quotes - Page 113

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

The unique thing about my life is the extent to which it took me on a path-business-I had no desire to walk.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

Americans sadly, are the #1 consumers worldwide. We drive the market. American citizens. That struck me - like a lightning bolt! And that probably was as impactful in terms of me having a strong desire to take action as anything.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

So what we have is an American foreign policy that is inextricably linked to domestic matters. It is very dangerous for a politician who desires nothing more than to stay in office to address the mindset that any change in policy is appeasement. And Americans will accept that for a certain amount of time.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.

If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.

Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.