You retire, but you’re still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn’t have the desire to do that any more. – Eric Cantona
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. – Emile M. Cioran
I don’t have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don’t have any desire to go back on the road. – Michelle Phillips
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. – Maggie Gallagher
It was Chicago with its World’s Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty. – Daniel Burnham
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. – E. Stanley Jones
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up. – Max Liebermann
An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. – Michel Hazanavicius
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. – Mary MacLane
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. – Marguerite Duras
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. – Danny Boyle
Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry. – David A. R. White
You can’t have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire’s satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal. – Catherynne M. Valente
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. – Napoleon Hill
It’s a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It’s an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I’m a contender! – Chely Wright
When people are struggling, that’s a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire. – Gaby Hoffmann
So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, ’cause this is the only time there is. – Della Reese
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise. – Catherine McAuley
Make sure your desire to do what you’re aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity. – Meagan Good
I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me. – Dionne Warwick