Desire Quotes - Page 28

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.

Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.

Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

The law of giving and receiving is fundamental, and relates just as much to God as it does to us. As we go through the door of giving ourselves to God in worship we find that God comes through that same door and gives Himself to us. God's insistence that we worship Him is not really a demand at all but an offer-an offer to share Himself with us. When God asks us to worship Him, He is asking us to fulfill the deepest longing in Himself, which is His passionate desire to give Himself to us. It is what Martin Luther called "the joyful exchange."

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an indelible youthfulness and beauty that never wanes. May young people have increasing confidence in her and may they entrust their lives to her.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

To desire a state is to have it.