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

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.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

I always wanted to be loved.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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

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.

Desire is the essence of a man.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

He would make a lovely corpse.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Desire is the very essence of man.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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

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.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

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.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

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.

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

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘