It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric Hoffer

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Alexander Pope

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.
Louis Farrakhan

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Meryl Streep

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
Paul J. Meyer

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

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

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith