Desire Quotes

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
Gary Coleman

Job, Acting, Matter

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Ernst Mach

Life, Knowledge, End

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
Ahmed Yassin

Change, Battle, Against

My desire is to walk with God every day.
Janine Turner

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Janine Turner

I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
Jeremy Northam

Great, Nice, Down

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
Jeremy Northam

Famous, Actually, Shy

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.
Isabelle Huppert

Deep, Decision, Made

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre

Art, Otherwise, Springs

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
Ed O'Brien

Work, Respect, Confidence

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Pierre Loti

Life, Cannot, Wish

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.
Marvin Hamlisch

Funny, Work, Down

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates

Life, Good, Heart

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
Rob Bell

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Different, Same, Free

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
H. G. Bissinger

Made, Chemistry, Emotion

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.
Elias Hicks

Home, Truth, Friends

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya Mannes

Money, May, Eye

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
Philip Guston

Experience, Made, Off

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
Nelson DeMille

Successful, Strong

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
Dick Gephardt

Freedom, Important, Democracy

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
Michael Arad

Future, Trying, Emotions

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
Will McDonough

Play, Same, Once

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
Nathaniel Branden

Love, Woman, Him

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.
Scott McClellan

Free, Plan, Iraq

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Robert Toombs

Government, Purpose, Congress

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
Carol Leifer

Mom, Woman, Mad

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
Townsend Harris

United, Countries, East

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.
Townsend Harris

Change, Cannot, Matter

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg

Win, Champion, Dedication

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