Desire Quotes - Page 77

You never quite know what you're going to come back to and figure out how to make it work. You never quite know where that desire to finish something, or return to something in a fresh way, is going to come from. Every time I finished a film and went back and looked at it, I had changed as a person.

Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.