I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener – and secret – wish to become an actor. – Conrad Veidt
People just don’t realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them. – Frederica Mathewes-Green
I’ve never been married and I’ve no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious. – Francesca Annis
As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success. – Ehud Olmert
You’ve got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It’s good for all of us, whether you’re in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn’t lead to a fracturing. – Nick Clegg
I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters. – Daniel Snyder
The government’s desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn’t give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. – David Suzuki
I never discuss a novel while I’m writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. – Dean Koontz
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. – Mortimer Adler
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. – Epictetus
I didn’t have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. – Paul Thomas Anderson
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. – Elihu Root
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. – Ezra Taft Benson
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them – or any of them. – George Takei
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. – Napoleon Hill
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed. – Daisaku Ikeda
The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration’s rhetoric about Harvard’s desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty. – Margaret Geller
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche