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

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Desire is the essence of a man.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

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 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 starting point of all achievement is desire.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

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.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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

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.

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

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.

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.‘

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

By that sin fell the angels.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

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.

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

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

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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

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.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I always wanted to be loved.

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

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

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.

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

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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.

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

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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.

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.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

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.

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

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

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

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.