People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
James Allen

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
Dennis Rodman

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Denis Diderot

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
Marco Rubio

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page

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

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Jacques Derrida

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

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
Robertson Davies

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine

We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
Jim Capaldi