Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

When you discover your mission you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave wise rich generous obedient to wife and lively in bed.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.

I believe we have become paralyzed paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein but an opponent also of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan where he seems only to want to turn tail.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Most people think that shadows follow precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words ideas desires deeds impulses and memories.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

And trust yes which is important but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people and with that desire to get things as good as possible I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad and like to travel and wanted to be paid for it.