I don't go to the gym. I've always been very athletic and kept very active. I used to run track. I literally have no desire to get a gym membership.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.
Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that's not actually really true.
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'
Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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.
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
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.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing.
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
I do think that the desire to permanently alter your body is triggered by this easy access to Photoshop on your phone.
British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
