Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

For greed all nature is too little.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

I always wanted to be loved.

Law, without force, is impotent.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.