James G. Blaine Quotes

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Desire is the very essence of man.

when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.

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

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

I've been dying to play.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

To wish is little; we must long with the utmost eagerness to gain our end.

I think most people can relate to the feeling of love spilling over into obsession.

Timing is irrelevant when it comes to desire.

I think about Milan from morning to night, and there is certainly no lack of effort and desire on my part.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

There's no prayer like desire.