Desire Quotes - page 3

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. (Bobby Sands)
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. View quote
Paulo Coelho
High achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes. View quote
George Eliot
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. View quote
Jasper Johns
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH... View quote
Jack Kerouac
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. View quote
Roland Barthes
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. View quote
Norman Mailer
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. (Samuel Johnson)
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey. View quote
Brian Molko
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. View quote
Willa Cather
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. View quote
Howard H. Aiken
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)
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
If you desire many things, many things will seem few. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. View quote
E. B. White
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. View quote
Nicole Kidman
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