Home / Topics / Desire Quotes

Desire Quotes

Browse 12306 quotes about Desire.

Desire Quotes

“Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.”

Desire Easy Common One Thing Driven Swindlers Easy Money

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.”

Desire Driven Cells

Author:Randy Schekman

“Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love.”

People Ifs Men Today Desire Saws He Man Filled Passionate Affection Storm Driven No Love Morrow

Book:Gertrude

Source: Gertrude

“There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Heart Dream Desire Night Doors Weak Smell Driven Temptation Temples Day And Night Weak Points

Book:Written On The Body

Source: Written On The Body

“We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.”

“Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'”

World Said Desire Enemy Land This World Killing Driven Violent Prophet Goods Manifest Collecting Muhammad Slaughter Captives Ransom

Author:Ibn Ishaq

“My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.”

Ideas Feelings Desire Universe Capable Photographer Driven Visuals Quests

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.”

Problem Desire Evil Pure Eternal Investing Driven Endless Fallen Emptiness Compelled Insatiable

Author:Denis de Rougemont

“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power