Quotes about Desire
I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
— George Clooney
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
— St. Augustine
Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!
— Joseph Alleine
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
— St. Jerome
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.
— Randy Alcorn
Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
— Donald Miller
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.
— Drew Barrymore
Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
— Dolly Parton