Quotes about Desire

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!

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

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.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

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.

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.

I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

However much I might have yearned to be one of The Beautiful Ones, particularly at those ghastly school discos, where any desperate attempt to impress the opposite sex lead to at best deep humiliation, I now feel extremely blessed that I wasn't.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

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.