Quotes about Desire
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
— DA Carson
My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you."
— Francis Chan
It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.
— Jack Kerouac
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.
— Paulo Coelho
Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
— Marianne Williamson
Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
— Ronald Reagan
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
— St. Augustine
How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.
— Craig Groeschel
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
— AW Tozer
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
— Aristotle