Desire Quotes (373 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Kip Winger
„It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.“
― Kip Winger ―
Picture of quotation author Patti Smith
„More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.“
― Patti Smith ―
Picture of quotation author Pierre Loti
„I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.“
― Pierre Loti ―
Picture of quotation author D. H. Lawrence
„In every living thing there is the desire for love.“
― D. H. Lawrence ―
Picture of quotation author Chiang Kai-shek
„China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.“
― Chiang Kai-shek ―
Picture of quotation author Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
„It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.“
Picture of quotation author Marco Rubio
„But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.“
― Marco Rubio ―
Picture of quotation author Lawrence Durrell
„Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.“
Picture of quotation author Armin Zoggeler
„My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.“
― Armin Zoggeler ―
Picture of quotation author Lynn Shelton
„I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.“
― Lynn Shelton ―
Picture of quotation author Carroll Shelby
„I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.“
― Carroll Shelby ―
Picture of quotation author Eddie Huang
„I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.“
― Eddie Huang ―
Picture of quotation author Milton Glaser
„The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.“
― Milton Glaser ―
Picture of quotation author Saffron Burrows
„If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.“
― Saffron Burrows ―
Picture of quotation author Mahatma Gandhi
„He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.“
― Mahatma Gandhi ―
Picture of quotation author Rand Paul
„As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.“
― Rand Paul ―
Picture of quotation author Francois de La Rochefoucauld
„A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.“
Picture of quotation author Lech Walesa
„My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.“
― Lech Walesa ―
Picture of quotation author Emile M. Cioran
„The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.“
― Emile M. Cioran ―
Picture of quotation author Samuel Taylor Coleridge
„A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.“

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