Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm dead and in a box in the dark dark ground, and all my various souls have died and I am nothing but insensible bones, something in the marrow will still feel yearning, desire persisting beyond flesh.
I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.
Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
I never got a chance to participate in one, but I wanted to be in an iron man match. I really just wanted to go in there and I remember pitching a couple of times too, and it wasn't necessarily for an iron man match, but I wanted to just go out there for a full hour and just do a match.
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.
I want you and it will be so, While I have life.
It was Milan who proved they wanted me and they did everything to get me.
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.
I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.
Everything in your life can change except ONE: your passion
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.
The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
My hunger is always there.
The hunger for runs is always there, irrespective of whether I was getting runs or not.
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
People would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer," and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."
