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Desire Quotes

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

John Nelson Darby

God Care Church Go Desire Say

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Richard Dawkins

Mistake Think Talking Clarity Desire

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

Victoria Osteen

God Light Believe Desire Become Us

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

Play Desire Returning Still Retiring

I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

Car Wife Looking House Desire Those

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Character Discipline Desire

We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.

Mariella Frostrup

World Admit Desire Act Where Our

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

Age Think Desire Young Always Very

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

Dorothy Allison

Book Strong You Powerful Desire

Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.

Leader Bold Desire Vote Conservative

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.

Music Famous Desire Know Want Just

Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.

Murray Rothbard

Government Desire Existence Act Only

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Samuel Alexander

Cold Expectations Warm Desire Warmth

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

Deborah Sampson

Step Me Thought You Wrong Desire

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Man Happy Desire Want Others Never

The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.

Simplicity Desire More Get Older

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Love Lust Wrong Desire Pleasure

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Knowledge World Look Desire Healthy

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

Imperialism Desire Own China Replace

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Success Failure Desire Want Swim

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge Desire Pleasure Take Being

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

Time Culture People Control Desire

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Success American Desire Build Right

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Man Attention Find Quiet Desire Who

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