Desire Quotes - Page 75

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.

If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.

Our desire is the warmth in our life, it's not a blanket.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.