Desire Quotes

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.
Eric Bana

Time, Great, Strong

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus

Heart, Woman, Fine

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.
Roger Clemens

Time, Put, Possible

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.
Seann William Scott

Time, Movies, Find

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
William Wirt

Ignorance, May, Moment

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
Adrienne Rich

Live, Living, Tell

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Oliver Goldsmith

Knowledge, Greatest, Become

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.
Nick Clegg

Good, Powerful, Others

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.
Trey Parker

Talk, Penn, Sean

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley

Experience, Motivation, Against

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones

Church, Ordinary, Appear

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

Music, Famous, Greatest

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

Good, Learning, Beautiful

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston

Nothing, Thoughts, Off

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.
William Cobbett

Great, Evil, Thought

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce

Truth, Science, May

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
Paul Theroux

Place, Leave, Point

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

Love, Sexy, Give

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
Mary Schmich

Love, Good, Death

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding

Science, Fashion, Rather

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Herbert Read

True, Might, Natural

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler

Love, Soul, Cannot

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
Akio Morita

Heart, Together, Try

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
David Brainerd

God, Business, Others

We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
Katey Sagal

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
Condoleezza Rice

Freedom, Help, Reality

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Manuel Puig

Help, Writing, Understand

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'
Marlee Matlin

Time, Parents, Everything

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir

Truth, Curiosity, Scientist

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