Desire Quotes - Page 74

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

I faced in myself a passionate and tenacious longing--to put away thought forever, and all the trouble it brings, all but the nearest desire, direct and searching. To take the trail and not look back..Let the rest of mankind find me if it could.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

Use the power of your conscious & subconscious mind to create a vibrational match for the abundance you desire and deserve.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.