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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records. — Roger Waters

Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear? — S.J. Watson

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly. — Abraham Lincoln

Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession! — Darren D.O. Connell

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. — Georgia O'Keeffe

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie. — John Eldredge

Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually — Stephen R. Covey

We shouldn't want demons to manifest. We should desire that the Lord be manifested and — Neil T. Anderson

All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him — Vincent De Paul

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one. — Layne Beachley

I want to make her cheeks flush from my dirty mouth and her body squirm with desire. — Karina Halle

Angst is not the human condition, it's the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can't get. — Miguel Syjuco

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. — Jay McInerney

In reply to 'how do I flirt with people?':
Just be yourself and not want anything out of anybody. Desire is the killer of all smoothness. — Patrick Stump

Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didn't want to surface. — Katherine McIntyre

It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable. — Fernando Pessoa

Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want. — Sara Farizan

But you will trust me again, Annabelle. You will want me again, and we will be together. I will behave. You'll see. - Zacharel — Gena Showalter

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe. — James Lileks

You keep looking at me like that and we won't make it through dinner. I'll take you right there on that counter. No doubt you'd taste better. — Kelly Moran

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. — Stephen Covey

Our deepest (and fastest) yearnings can be tempered by reason and experience; our more prudent judgments softened by desire and need. — Kayt Sukel

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. — Saint Patrick

I don't want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me. — M.C. Humphreys

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want. — Buddhadasa

Every want I fulfilled and every desire was quenched. I wanted for nothing. Except attention. — Fisher Amelie

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. — Christina Baldwin

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. — Geoffrey Chaucer

It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of. — Samuel Johnson

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts. — Frank Iero

Anastasia. I want you to behave in a particular way, and if you don't, I shall punish you, and you will learn to behave the way I desire. — E.L. James

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it. — Bob Dylan

Become what you desire! Before you say "I want"...say - "I am"...There is a great difference between "I want love" and "I am love"... — G. Creighton Bradshaw

A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire
much less teach your kids to want. — Mireille Guiliano

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing. — Andre Gide

Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them. — Sam Lipsyte

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. — Henry Fielding

I want you. And I usually get what I want. I had to wait too long to have you already. — Kelly Moran

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear? — P.D. James

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things. — Isabella Blow

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein

Love is about as strong, as two people want to make it. — Anthony Liccione

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Insofar as there shall always be a desire, there shall always be a want and there shall always be a need — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Always ensure to keep focus on what you desire and not what others want you to focus upon. — Steven Redhead

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself. — Bill Shoemaker

You are what you desire.
You may live with desires and determine all that you want;
But your actions determine what and how much you receive. — Gian Kumar

Do we want a master, or shall we have a genie whose command is our wish? This is the tension of desire - and the test of revelation. — Jen Pollock Michel

If you don't need what you really want, you can barely want what you really need. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want. — Laurie Frankel

He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew. — Cora Carmack

Network administrators all share an abiding and passionate desire for one thing: We want our users to shut up. — Michael W. Lucas

Love is having. Desire is wanting. And you can want only what you don't already have. — Emily Nagoski

I loved him, but he didn't want me anymore.
I suffered, and he laughed at my umanity.
This desire will be my end. — Sabrina Benulis

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last. — John Scalzi

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people ... — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

Let me suck you off." Her voice was soft but low, thick with desire. "I can and I want to. — Skye Jordan

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. — Vincent De Paul

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells. — Sarah Waters

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. — Clarice Lispector

I'm sick and tired of life with no desire. I don't want a flame, I want a fire. — Matthew West

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that. — Sherri L. King

When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire. — Demi Moore

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. — Abraham H. Maslow

Passion is that strong and mostly uncontrollable feeling of love that one has towards what he want to do or does. It is dependent on emotions. — Israelmore Ayivor

To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now. — Tom Robbins

Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs. — Joe Swanberg

Desire nothing except desirelessness.
Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
Want nothing and you will have everything. — Meher Baba

I'm not athletic and have no desire to work out, so I watch what I eat. Correction: I eat what I want and feel guilty about it later. — Megan Miranda

...There's a difference between desire and desperation. You should never want a guy more than he wants you. — Dream Jordan

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'

I want to need you. — Amanda Mosher

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective. — John Wooden

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it. — Peter Schjeldahl

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red. — Sophie Kinsella

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. — George Orwell

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire. — Don Henley

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace. — Sathya Sai Baba

If Americans desire to be both ignorant and free, they want what never has been and what never will be. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). — Stephen R. Covey

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.
I want. — Sara Gruen

Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do. — Ashish Patel

Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do. — Sheryl Crow

You're going to want me, Simon, as much as I want you...and before you can have me...you're going to have to deserve me. — Gayle Eden

I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace. — Sathya Sai Baba

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is. — Gerald Brommer

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. — Max Lucado

The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better. — Anthony Liccione