1108 Desire Quotes for You to Enjoy

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. Francis Bacon

Man Strange Liberty Power Lose Others Seek Self Over Desire

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made. Frank B. Kellogg

Made Earnest Has-Been Would True Advocate Been Accomplished Start Desire

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated. Frans de Waal

Animal Animals Though Only Heads Piece Makes Understand Answer Wonder Closeness Goes Just Little Them Realize Us Creates Little Piece Fully Whole Even Desire

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. Fred Astaire

Myself Dance Air Dancing No Desire Outlet Never Put Feet Around Prove Move Just Anything Them Means Used Expressing Desire

Especially during the hot weather, we have been so greatly hampered by infections despite our utmost care, and since we have lost so many dogs, I strongly desire more help to keep the place clean and gloves and gowns and a thorough fitting up of our operating room. Frederick Banting

Care Weather Lost Despite Our Thorough Strongly More Clean Hot Since Operating Gloves Dogs Been Up Greatly Fitting Place Room Help Many Keep Utmost Desire

Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work. Frederick Banting

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience Ourselves Must Having Study Come Does Off While Desire

My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing. G. Willow Wilson

Time Myself Communicate Comedy Black Spent Black Comedy Finding More More And More Various Share Powerful Powerful Thing Sort Audiences Lot Different Which Explaining Groups Thing Career Desire

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this. Gael Garcia Bernal

People World Language Few Live Late Meet Never Empathy Know Learn Another Understand Been Mexico Revive Get Quite Common Us Create Many Many Levels Away Illustrious Levels Desire Need

The desire for romantic love in marriage is deeply rooted in our psychological makeup. Gary Chapman

Love Marriage Our Makeup Romantic Psychological Romantic Love Rooted Deeply Desire

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from. George C. Wolfe

Think Out Find About Primal Come Know Where Much Desire

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire. George Edward Woodberry

Life Experience Poet Power Live Imagination Tells Strongly Only Purity Voices Seldom He Takes Greater Because His May Place Height Much Uses Utterance Here Desire Desires

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. George Eliot

Future Will Past No Future Ties Break Desire

Have the courage of your desire. George Gissing

Courage Your Desire

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago. George Harrison

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker

Playwright Dramatic Pleasure Adequate Characterization Memorable Impersonate Instinct Dialogue Provide Itself Literature Produces Actor Desire

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). 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. George Saunders

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.' George Saunders

Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them. George Takei

Strong Will Argument Our Weapons Restricting Never Never Stop Fails Access Least Account Any Stop Common Them Many Desire

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge. George W. Bush

Good Me You Book Giving Country Think President Criticize See Emerge Arena Know Until Limelight Opinions His Selling Submerge Going Just Former Public Then Successor Zero Start Desire

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle. Georges Pompidou

First Reconcile Only Parliament Had Arrived Forgotten Things Desire Two

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