Quotes and Sayings About Desire
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May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
-- A. B. Yehoshua -
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
-- A. S. Byatt -
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her
-- Abbi Glines -
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
-- Abigail Reynolds -
Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
-- Abraham Cowley -
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
-- Abraham Maslow -
There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige
-- Abraham Maslow -
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
-- Adam Cooper -
It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.
-- Adam Fletcher -
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
-- Adam Gopnik -
As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
-- Adam Hamilton -
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
-- Adela Florence Nicolson -
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
-- Adi Shankara -
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
-- Adoniram Judson -
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
-- Adrienne Rich -
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
-- Adrienne Rich -
True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
-- Adyashanti -
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
-- Agatha Christie -
Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
-- Agnes Repplier -
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
-- Agnes Repplier -
When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.
-- Ai Yazawa