Desire Quotes - Page 99

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!

The desire to know is natural to good men.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

I am sitting in the trenches between love and desire.' - ART like LOVE is rarely understood.

There is no greater crime than desire.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.