Desire Quotes - Page 84

My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.

Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

God created us, He created us for His glory, and He created us to have a relationship with Him, and He created us to be all that He desires us to be and He's jealous of that because He does not want to share that with others.

I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

I'm sure a handful of people can relate to that experience of having some kind of romantic encounter - the event of love - which they just can't shake. They take it with them, despite their own desire, and it continually haunts them, and there's nothing to be done about it. That's a true rarity.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.