Quotes about Desire
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.
— CS Lewis
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
— Norman Vincent Peale
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
— Oscar Wilde
I will take what is mine and keep it for as long as i want
— Jeff Hardy
Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why
— Dustin Hoffman
Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.
— Ronald Reagan
The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.
— Charlie Munger
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
— Publilius Syrus
When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.
— Paulo Coelho
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
— Vance Havner
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
— William Barclay