Desire Quotes - Page 62

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

Increasing your repertoire has the advantage that you don't have to give up enjoying what you already like: it is always easier to add new behaviors than to deny your deepest desires.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.