Desire Quotes - Page 50

She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

May you be blessed with everything your heart desires.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.

Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be completely fulfilled without the body, but desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. Desire needs the body; the body is the vehicle of desire. That's why possession happens. You have heard, you must have heard, many stories about a ghost possessing somebody else. Why is a ghost so interested in possessing somebody else? It is because of desires. Desires cannot be fulfilled without a body, so he enters somebody's body to fulfill his desires.

I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.