Desire Quotes - Page 78

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

A nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.