We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

Desire has no history...

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

There's no prayer like desire.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Funerals often make us want sex—it’s one in the eye for death.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing—desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.

Human behavior, says Plato, flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...

We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.

“Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

“If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.”

“The more you want, the more you stand to lose”