I never had a desire to be famous… I was fat. I didn’t know any fat famous actresses… You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

The law of supply and demand governs market prices and quantities.

The desire for wealth and the pursuit of self-interest can often lead to beneficial outcomes for society.

I always had the desire to be the best.

Want it; desire it; earn it; take it.

I don’t want to be a flash in the pan.

There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness

Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge to flee-an urge to get away from his work, from the everyday site of a cold, rigid, and passionate servitude.

Affection is the real secret of a good memory in religion. No worldly man can think much about Christ, unless Christ is pressed upon his notice, because he has no affection for Him. The true Christian has thoughts about Christ every day that he lives, for this one simple reason, that he loves Him.

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy

Many cry to the Lord that they may win riches, that they may avoid losses; they cry that their family may be established, they ask for temporal happiness, for worldly dignities; and, lastly, they cry for bodily health, which is the patrimony of the poor. For these and suchlike things many cry to the Lord; hardly one cries for the Lord Himself! How easy it is for a man to desire all manner of things from the Lord and yet not desire the Lord Himself! As though the gift could be sweeter than the Giver!

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it

We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help

The great majority of habitual drinkers are born not only without desire for alcohol, but with actual repugnance toward it. Not the first, nor the twentieth, nor the hundredth drink, succeeded in giving them the liking. But they learned, just as men learn to smoke; though it is far easier to learn to smoke than to learn to drink. They learned because alcohol was so accessible.

The desire to do it was strong, but stronger still was the imperative command of his nature not to do it. In spite of himself he was still faithful to Love. The old days of license and easy living were gone. He could not bring them back, nor could he go back to them, He was changed – how changed he had not realized until now.

It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more clearly the defects of human corruption

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons

Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position

The fear of losing is always there, but you mustn’t let that fear dull your desire to win

Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate.

Football’s become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.

I am convinced that one should tell one’s spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell

I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me

I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I’ll do that.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint

If I can be a role model, or if I can maybe make another manager play a young player coming through rather than buy a player, that’s incredible.

It depends on how my football career goes, but when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game, it is something I would like to do.

I literally want to work until I’m in the grave.

Instructing is instinctual craftsmanship, aware of potential, desiring of acknowledgment, a delaying, consistent procedure. 

There are numerous who desire for the basic answers of principle or announcement. They are on the left and right. They are not bound to a solitary piece of the general public. They are psychological militants of the brain

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

We generally realized how to respect fallen troopers. They were murdered for the good of us; they went out on our central goal. Be that as it may, how are we to grieve an arbitrary man executed in a fear-based oppressor assault while sitting in a bistro? How would you grieve a housewife who jumped on transport and stayed away forever?

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair

You are made in the image of what you desire.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Lawyers are the new three-button, white-collar, cuff-shooting cowboys. They fulfill all the cowboy criteria. Workingmen with arcane skills. They can be both good and bad, sheriffs and gunslingers

In the Edwardian way of things, collected indiscriminately and rigorously, with the global kleptomania of empire and the desire to own, calibrate, measure and stuff everything possible, to put all of creation into its place, and place as much of it as possible in glass cases.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other menfir

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don’t give a damn.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face

Real change requires a desire to change.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don’t feel good”.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire

I always want to run; I always want to play.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

I just assumed that at the time if I could display a talent worthy of praise. . . that I wasn’t just who you thought I was, I thought I wouldn’t be fat anymore. That may seem silly, I know that now. But at the time, I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself, that my body wouldn’t be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn’t be that fat girl, I wouldn’t be that dark skinned girl. I’d be Gabby I’d be human

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: “I want to be praised.

Because every desire has its proper object…people spend their lives wanting things the shouldn’t. The world confuses them into taking heir love and aiming it where it doesn’t belong…All it takes to be happy is to love the right things, in the right amounts. Not money. Not books. People. Adults who don’t understand that never feel fulfilled.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you’d prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Every man has his little weakness. It often takes the form of a desire to get something for nothing.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

If my body was on fire, you’d watch me burn down in flames

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

My pride, my ego, my needs, and my selfish ways Caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart’s desire.

When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

They may desire the option of increasing the nation’s income by increasing its productivity, but their political agenda prevents that from happening.101 The second option is to.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

The key that unlocks energy is ‘Desire’. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

The function of constitutional monarchy is to personify the democratic state, to sanction legitimate authority, to assure the legality of means, and guarantee the execution of the public will. It is my ardent desire that no citizen in my realms should suffer restraint.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I don’t want to live in a hand-me-down world of others’ experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

Without hope we live in desire.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

Love letters from heaven are often sent in black-edged envelopes. The cloud that is black with horror is big with mercy. Fear not the storm. It brings healing in its wings and when Jesus is with you in the vessel the tempest only hastens the ship to its desired haven.

God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain—that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. … This may be called the cunning of reason.

The sight of a child will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons—longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted personal.

Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Everyone you see has a heart desire.

It is absolutely necessary… for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Everything that I’ve gotten out of life was obtained through dedication and a tremendous desire to achieve my goals…a great desire for victory, meaning victory in life, not as a driver

I want to be the peace president.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others

I plan to put something back into society, and not at the head table, not always in the glamour, certainly not with a lot of news attention.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.

I wanna live. I don’t wanna die. That’s the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade.

I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. I just want them to respect my opinion.

You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.

Sometimes when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since “the rest of your life” won’t last forever.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.

I would never connect to a sound, I change it.

Wonder implies the desire to learn

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man…?

All men by nature desire knowledge

Before rap I had friends, got a deal, I ain’t got shit Just tryna get rich, cause my people kinda struggled. Couple tenure niggas poor, but the hood still love me Lil Durk.

All I need is some loyalty.

What are our expectations? Which of the things we desire are within reach? If not now, when? And will there be some left for me?

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress.