Strong Desire Quotes

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I've learned from my experience that desire is 80% of achievement. That if you really, really want something, if you really, really, really want to do something, that the vast majority of achieving it is wanting it. I mean, really wanting it. Not a preference, and not, "Gee, I hope this." I mean really wanting it. It is the desire that makes you do what you have to do to achieve.

I wanted to beat Peyton Manning as bad as I've ever wanted anything in my life.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens.

There was something about a man with a shovel, and the sweat on his neck might as well have been chocolate sauce. It wasn't fair. Brains and brawns should be two separate categories, not bundled into one irresistible package. She needed to pull herself together before she went after him with a spoon. But where to start?

Most of the suspicion of intellectuals in politics springs from the belief, not entirely false, that, owing to a strong desire to see life in some simple, symmetrical fashion, they put too much faith in the beneficent results of applying directly to life conclusions obtained by operations in some theoretical sphere.

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

To wish is little; we must long with the utmost eagerness to gain our end.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

When I started doing magic I was quite obsessive about it. I didn't feel impressive and I had a strong desire to impress people. I was putting all my creative energy into learning and performing tricks, and it helps if you're not in relationships or doing the stuff other people are doing. But it's not necessarily a healthy way of living.

I want to be ripped apart by music.

I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.