Desire Quotes - Page 29

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Habit is stronger than desire.

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

Every heart desires a mate.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts?

There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.

The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs.

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.

He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.