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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

We're nothing more than prisoners to your desire. — Jessie Burton

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

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed. — Daisaku Ikeda

I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone, — Neil Gaiman

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is. — Om Puri

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

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire — George R R Martin

A desire to become a more loving, better, and beautiful person is the key to all enduring success. — Debasish Mridha

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire. — Joseph Conrad

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him. — David Pietrusza

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

I have no desire to look at myself. — Pierce Brosnan

I believe people have the right to diminish themselves if they so desire. I — Simon Strantzas

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us. — Ronald Reagan

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

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed. — Stephen Richards

Our willingness and desire to be obedient to the teachings of Jesus is at the heart of our entire faith walk. — Sara Dormon

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them. — Stevie Wonder

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 desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is. — Ann Kidd Taylor

When love burns toward the Savior a sincere passion to render obedience to all of His precepts is our desire, our delight and our holy obsession. — Albert Martin

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live. — Remy De Gourmont

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

When it comes to you
I can't help myself
I've never been this
attached
to someone's flaws — Audrey Rey

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire. — Jillian Michaels

Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God. — San Juan De La Cruz

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you. — Ramana Maharshi

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect. — Sophocles

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity. — Desire-Joseph Mercier

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living. — Heraclitus

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre. — Rafael Cruz

Delayed gratification helps to limit the animalistic desire of human flesh. — Sunday Adelaja

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton] — Don Draper From 'Mad Men'

You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring. — Debasish Mridha

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. — John Stuart Mill

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire. — Mike Murdock

Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy. — Udai Yadla

Desire is the key to motivation. — Mario Andretti

It's important to only think about what you desire, not what you fear. — Doreen Virtue

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire. — Eric Hoffer

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 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

Tequila often gave people the desire to tackle the impossible. It did not, however, make impossible possible — Darynda Jones

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap. — Lisa Bonet

She had made so many calculations, but none involved her legs melting from under her with the instant desire to screw. — Lauren Groff

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption. — Mike Vallely

All I wanted was to share myself with him ... in a love way, lust way, every kind of way. — Jess C. Scott

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 desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. — Dean Koontz

To acknowledge the absurdly surreal is the clarity to embrace life as it is, not as we desire it- what you do with this information, hell if I know — Josh Stern

Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery. — Orson Scott Card

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God's desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son. — Billy Graham

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi

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

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

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. — Jennifer Granholm

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. — Orison Swett Marden

I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair. — Cyrus Broacha

She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire. — S.R. Roddy

To be content with death may be better than to desire it. — Thomas Browne

Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly. — Baltasar Gracian

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 abstain
from love.

The more I seethe with desire
The more I seem to attract. — Hilda Ismail

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

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

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. — Plato

Pentecost is a celebration of God ... a celebration of God's power ... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us. — Mark Hart

I want to need you. — Amanda Mosher

I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester — Lars Iyer

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

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself. — John Darnielle

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. — Novalis

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven. — Thomas Hardy

Protect what belongs to you at all costs; don't desire what belongs to another. — Epictetus

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. — Alister E. McGrath

Congratulations! A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom." "You — Robert A. Heinlein

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Resistance to temptation means taking desire seriously. Both Jesus and Satan do. — Russell D. Moore

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

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire. — Erykah Badu

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music. — Zach Braff

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. — Marguerite Duras

...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good. — Chris Marlow

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