Desire Quotes - Page 118

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

God's will is your deepest desires.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable

Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Memory is satisfied desire.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.