Quotes on the topic: Desire


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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.


In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.


Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.


A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.


I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in life. If you're doing something, and you have a desire to do something different, give it a try.


We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.


The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.


Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.


As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.


Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.


I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.


It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.


In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.


Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.


I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.


Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.


A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.


Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.


I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.


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.