Desire Quotes - Page 36

• Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

  Daniel Mainwaring

  Faith, Believe, Ambition

  "Fictional character: Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman". "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Notorious, Increase, Desire To Live

  Charlas de Cafe

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• As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Men, Path

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.118, Ballantine Books

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• Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

  Jason Russell

  Humanity

  "Kony 2012 is about now - right now. Get with the programme!" by Charlie Skelton, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

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• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Government, Office, Simplicity

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• Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.

  Vivian Gornick

  Giving Up, Pain, Fear

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• The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.

  Nagisa Oshima

  Looks, Unbearable, Disappear

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• We must life the level of understanding both at home and abroad of what the free enterprise system is, what it is not, and how it benefits the people who live under it. We must somehow get these elementary truths across, not only to the people of other lands but to millions here at home who do not understand it, if we are to generate a powerful demand and desire for its retention.

  Philip D. Reed

  Powerful, Home, Land

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• The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Meaningful, Dream, Luxury

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

  Marilyn Yalom

  Defects, Persons

  "Marilyn Yalom and the Language of Lovemarilyn Yalom and the Language of Love". Interview with Royal Young, October 23, 2012.

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• I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Missing, Needs

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

  Thomas Brooks

  Confused, Eye, Men

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• Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Teacher, Should, Disciple

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

  John Ridley

  Children, Names, Movement

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Reality, Government, People

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• It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

  Dale Carnegie

  Book, Law, Names

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Patriotic, Fate

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• [As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

  Nora Roberts

  Discipline, Missing, Three

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• I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.

  Dominique Browning

  Different, Agendas, Cherish

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• The desire for true happiness
  is nothing to feel ashamed about.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  True Happiness, Ashamed, Feels

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• Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

  Joyce Meyer

  Regret, Action, Distress

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• It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those around him. In private, Messi is a great leader, a great captain. Usually the best in any area see things differently but in this case Leo is still an ordinary person and that makes our relationship work. He's the leader of ARG, he has helped us to reach two finals in one year. I have great respect for Messi the person and player.

  Javier Mascherano

  Humility, Player, Years

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• To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Destiny, Quality, Achieve

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• All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.

  Paul Eluard

  Dream, Errors, Imagination

  Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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• In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ends

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