Desire Quotes

If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

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.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams,

This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain it.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest modelwhether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.