Desire Quotes - Page 83

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growing appetite for watching torture, or at least a desire to explore it on film? And if so, why would that be? I can't pretend I know. I just know I don't like it.

I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed. But that same gratifying presence puts limits on desire and rations satisfaction. In this sense the mother is also the first lawgiver.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.