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Quotes about Desire

If he had loved her he would have pursued her.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.
- Elisabeth Elliot
And ah for a man to arise in me,That the man I am may cease to be!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.
- Alice Hoffman
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
- Alice Walker
Learning to be content with what we have is a safeguard against the temptation to break the previous nine commands.
- Alistair Begg
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I still did some things in football, but I needed to get away from the game. I needed closure. And once I felt I'd achieved that, the hunger came back. That fire in your belly, the desire to feel the adrenaline at the weekend. That's when I felt I was able to go again.
- Roberto Di Matteo
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I just want to be playing! I love to play. But I think I can play in the three positions behind the striker.
- Juan Mata