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Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
— Joyce DeWitt
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
— Baltasar Gracian
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
— Idries Shah
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
— William Morris
Suffering accepted and vanquished ... will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
— Desire-Joseph Mercier
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
A desire to become a more loving, better, and beautiful person is the key to all enduring success.
— Debasish Mridha
Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroyingthat is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father
— Brigham Young
You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.
— Cynthia Carroll
The most important thing to him is his drive, his purpose, his desire to give meaning to the experience of dying.
— Philip Gould
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! Hell is in your future if you give in to desire!
— John Green
Love is the crocodile in the river of desire.
— Bhartrihari
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.
— Dawson Trotman
Her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body than the body itself.
— Lauren Groff
The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
— William Cobbett
Our willingness and desire to be obedient to the teachings of Jesus is at the heart of our entire faith walk.
— Sara Dormon
The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
— Remy De Gourmont
March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.
— David McCord
All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately, Though they look like desires mental or sensory;
- 39 - — Munindra Misra
Place Yourself On the Scale You Desire.Don't Expect Others To Do It For You. It's An Individual Thing Called SELF-ESTEEM.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But
— Paul Kalanithi
This desire for solitude often overcomes her at house-cleaning times.
— Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
— Thomas Aquinas
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
— Heraclitus
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.
— Gautama Buddha
The lot of the brideto be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne
Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
— Marie De France
Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade ... Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
— Theodore Roethke
As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.
— Frederick Lenz
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne
Tequila often gave people the desire to tackle the impossible. It did not, however, make impossible possible
— Darynda Jones
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
— John Stuart Mill
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
— Mason Cooley
You can only seek God when you have already found God. The desire for God's unconditional love is the fruit of having been touched by that love.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Desire is the key to motivation.
— Mario Andretti
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
— Nicole Kidman
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Preaching, then, is proclaiming God's desire to take hearers from where they are to where God wants them to be through the gospel.
— Julius J. Kim
By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
— Mortimer J. Adler
Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire?
— James Joyce
Love itself starts with the desire for something good.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality; utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life.
— Steven Redhead
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery
— Paramahansa Yogananda
I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.
— M. Night Shyamalan
Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God's desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.
— Billy Graham
She had made so many calculations, but none involved her legs melting from under her with the instant desire to screw.
— Lauren Groff
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
— Sextus Empiricus
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
— Orison Swett Marden
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
— Alessandro Baricco
I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.
— John Squire
Wanting to repent is the sign God hasn't abandoned you. It is God, after all, who puts in us the desire to come to Him.
— J.D. Greear
If only my heart could abstainfrom love.
The more I seethe with desire
The more I seem to attract. — Hilda Ismail
Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind.
— James Joyce
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
— Byron Katie
Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
— George Hodges
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.
— Pope Pius XII
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
— Robert Smith
Oh shit, another guy who doesn't talk. Is this what makes women lesbians? The desire to have a good conversation?
— Caroline Hanson
Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... . — Sappho
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.
— Joseph Murphy
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.
— Frederick Lenz
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
— Lauren Groff
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
— C.S. Lewis
What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?
— Guy De Maupassant
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[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
— Swami Vivekananda
You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita