Best Desire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.”

“My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.”

Desire Stage Goes On Offers Intention Despise Vague Vocation Lectures

Author:Mary MacLane

“What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.”

People Thinking Moments Desire Party Constitution Burning Aspiration Opposition Vietnam Burning Desire Opposition Parties

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.”

Ifs Knows Persons Enough Young Desire Actors Personality Chosen Burning Burning Desire

Author:Jodie Foster

“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”

Ifs Country Matter Law Desire Choices Views Majority Intention West Iran Monopoly Benign Condescending

Author:Azar Nafisi

“When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.”

Firsts Dream Age Desire Left Stars Shining Iran Shining Star Shining Down

Author:Azar Nafisi

“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”

Love Desire Causes Behavior Everyday Fascism Exploits Adversaries Strategic Power Of Love

Author:Michel Foucault

“There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.”

Dream Desire Missions Palestinian

Author:Ehud Olmert

“Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.”

Firsts Two Desire President Victory Claims Congress Agendas Ingredients Lacking Mandates Andrew Prerogative Landslides

Author:Ron Fournier

“And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.”

Desire Rights Relics Feudal System

Author:Robert Dale Owen

“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

Way Years Long Stories Wanted Mother Desire Black White Changed Pages Hundred Decided Eight Screens Pounds Short Story Black And White Never Change Goats Paragraph Laptops

Author:Tea Obreht

“I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.”

Stills Desire Goal Huge

Author:Ian Thorpe

“The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.”

Writing Mean Desire Consciousness Source Primaries Peculiar Originality Primary Source

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.”

Knows Humans Mean Desire Song Human Beings Sadness Despair Longing Hopelessness Faith In Love

Author:Ron Pope

“We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.”

People Self Government Desire Nations Interest Pay Attention Conflict Taxes Highest Angry Property Corruption Income Income Tax Incompetent Conflict Of Interest Albany Property Taxes

Author:Carl Paladino

“Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”

Humans Doe Desire Produce Righteousness

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.”

“My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.”

Desire My Friends Family And Friends Cultivating

Author:Zachary Quinto

“I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.”

Knows Giving Country Desire Strong Percent Bills Income Gates Giving Back Pledge Buffett Warren Buffet

Author:David Rubenstein

“I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.”

People Spiritual Desire Understanding Emotional Longing Experts Priests Attachment Rabbi

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.”

“Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.”

Knows Giving Long Feelings Desire Values Term Hurt Emotion Opinion Dog Mood Long Term Deep Thought Hurt Feelings Very Deep

Author:Garth Stein

“In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.”

Firsts Wells Heart Wanted Desire My Heart Dancer

Author:Phyllis Smith

“What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.”

Pain Desire Culture Gay Subversion Gay Culture

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.”

Thinking Knows Way Desire Emotion Fiction Nice Information Our Time Reminding Neurology Polarization

Author:George Saunders

“I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).”

Believe Mean Doe Real Stories Happens Desire I Believe My Own Findings I Believe In Believer Real Life Redemption

Author:George Saunders

“The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.”

Mind Doe Eye Moving Desire Watches Machines Asking Refuse Arise Discontent

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer'.”

Writing Moments Feelings Desire Pieces Nice Ego Really Nice Good Writers Outgrowing

Author:George Saunders

“What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.”

Knows Desire Found Powerful Oneself Stranger

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.”

Kind Desire Be Kind

Author:Katey Sagal

“If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you.”

Ifs Desire Realizing Cities Weekend

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in the depths of my soul, away from the stress and press of everything on top. A relationship with Christ is the key to fulfilling our deepest longings. All of life is about filling the void that sin and separation from him have created within. Filling the emptiness with piles of things, earthly friendships, satisfying experiences, and sensual encounters ultimately proves to achieve less than what we had hoped for. Christ is the only one who fits.”

“When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.”

Want Trying Wisdom Desire Answers Buddhism Eternity What You Want Frustration Conform

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.”

World Desire Humanity Steps Middle This World Buddhism Evolution Kings Fulfillment Frustration Burgers Burger King

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.”

People Humans Desire Humanity Lines Human Beings Buddhism Punishment Assumption Mentality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The condition of humankind is not good, in the sense that the illusory prisons we create for ourselves through our desires and our frustrations are unhappy.”

Desire Humanity Conditions Buddhism Prison Unhappy Frustration Humankind Illusory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions”

Happiness Desire Emotion Crazy Buddhism Right Now Silly Where You Are Be You Just Being Just Being You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.”

People Thinking World Happiness Desire Causes Buddhism Type Fulfillment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?”

Ifs Doe Happiness Desire Buddhism Ten Factors Fulfillment Apples Why Not Pie Make You Happy Apple Pie Satiation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.”

Should Firsts Desire Path Our Lives Buddhism Should Have Sexuality Path Of Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.”

Firsts Desire Numbers Resources Economics Infinite Goods Chasing Finite Finite Number

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I don't have any desire to ever act again full time.”

Desire

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.”

Desire Love Is Prove Prove Myself

Author:Anna Torv

“I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.”

Desire Hollywood

Author:Audrey Tautou

“You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.”

Looks Problem Past Desire Church Memories Building Goes On Weight Urgent Crushed Past Memories Building Something

Author:Pope Francis

“One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!”

Desire One Thing Periods Extremes Futurist

Author:Lea Thompson

“The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.”

Desire Cities New York New York City Elsewhere

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!”

Ifs Country Feelings Desire Radio Accepted Listeners Peers Equations Great Feelings

Author:Chely Wright

“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.”

People Play Character Desire Interesting Views Race Issues Right Now Theater Filled Very Interesting Personal Views

Author:Kerry Washington

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