Desire Quotes - Page 76

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Sex is normal. Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.

... [I] recall thinking that the computer would never advance much further than this. Call me naïve, but I seemed to have underestimated the universal desire to sit in a hard plastic chair and stare at a screen until your eyes cross.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.