Desire Quotes

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
Pete Townshend

Music, Character, Father

Desire is the very essence of man.
Baruch Spinoza

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.
Lawrence Welk

Learn, Whatever, Grow

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.
Kim Cattrall

Career, Lucky, Retirement

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Anne Rice

Book, Challenge, Become

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
Glenn Beck

Integrity, Find, Honor

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
Richard Simmons

Special, Takes, Pills

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
Alexis Carrel

Power, Human, Thinking

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
George Galloway

War, Children, United

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
Rand Paul

Success, American, Build

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart

Succeed, Burning, Chest

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe

Life, Romantic, True

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.
Kristen Stewart

Why, Learned, Whole

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Margaret Sanger

Love, Marriage, Woman

Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
Abu Bakr

May, Against, Possible

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
William Law

Happiness, God, Happy

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
William Law

Faith, Nature, Strong

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson

Peace, Deep, American

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
Thomas Frank

True, Else, Whatever

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Janine Turner

Mistakes, Off, Stand

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Place, Progress, Greater

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
George Whitefield

Great, God, Men

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?
Christian Bale

Someone, Person, Trying

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
Sandra Bullock

Public, Lifestyle, Dress

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
Chinua Achebe

Leave, Days, Treated

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes

Power, Death, After

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust

Men, Liberty, Wish

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.
Kim Cattrall

Time, Great, Youth

For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
Lauryn Hill

Freedom, Past, Different

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