Desire Quotes

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
Danny Boyle

Hard, Different, Easy

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
Ehud Olmert

Great, Government, Doubt

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
Nate Silver

Heart, Importance, Hitting

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
Jonathan Edwards

Friendship, God, Heart

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
Kevin Costner

Failure, Happen, Increases

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Means, Value, Dignity

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
Adam Carolla

Strong, Political, Others

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.
Ricky Williams

Power, Game, Play

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.
Ricky Williams

Give, Opinion, Attention

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de Stael

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.
Marc Jacobs

Fashion, Survive

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

Others, Natural, Needed

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
Andrew Cuomo

Death, Fear, Father

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).
George Saunders

Life, Cool, Real

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
George Saunders

Mind, Eyes, Become

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.'
George Saunders

Life, Good, Nice

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
Rachael Ray

Fake, After, Space

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.
Anthony Kiedis

Beautiful, Father, Meet

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Maggie Gallagher

Love, Romantic, Eyes

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
John Philip Sousa

Music, Real, Else

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan

Great, Children, Put

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
Shimon Peres

Change, Peace, Nature

Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
Donald Cargill

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy

History, Revenge, Human

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

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

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Peter McWilliams

Success, Happiness, Happy

I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.
Sloane Crosley

Live, Country, Else

The point of vision and desire are the same.
Wallace Stevens

Same, Vision, Point

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens

Nothing, Give, Reason

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