I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.
Izabella Scorupco

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Xun Zi

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Ben Hecht

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.
Maggie Gallagher

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Friedrich August von Hayek

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Antonio Tabucchi

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
Joseph de Maistre

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Emma Goldman

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett