InspiringQuotes

Desire Quotes:

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

source: A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

topic: Heart, Fire, Desire

Quotation Bill Cosby In order to succeed your desire for success should be Quotes

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

- A. B. Yehoshua

topic: Expression, Desire, Boundaries

quote he who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more horace Quotes

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

source: A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan

topic: Believe, Simple, Desire, Observant

Quotation Robert Kiyosaki The size of your success is measured by the strength Quotes

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.

topic: Falling In Love, Desire, Plot, Combs

Quotation Plato Human behavior flows from three main sources desire emotion and Quotes

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

source: A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.107, Penguin

topic: Psych, Desire, Belief

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

topic: Thinking, Desire, Legs

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

topic: Laughter, Men, Desire, Be A Man

Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Desire

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

topic: Famous Inspirational, Desire, World, Desire To Live, Irrepressible

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Achievement, Desire, Want

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

topic: Achievement, Independence, Desire, Adequacy

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

topic: Islamic, Desire, World

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

topic: People, Desire, Needs

It's really seeing student involvement â€¦ 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

topic: Educational, Opportunity, Desire

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.

topic: Loyalty, Past, Desire, Malevolence

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

source: Adam Hamilton (2013). “When Christians Get It Wrong”, p.110, Abingdon Press

topic: People, Desire, Praying, Deep Desire

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

- Adela Florence Nicolson

topic: Desire, Virtue, Devotion, Sated

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.

topic: Moving, Sorrow, Desire, True Nature

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

- Adoniram Judson

source: ADONIRAM JUDSON (1854). “RECORDS OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENTS”, p.106

topic: Giving, Desire, Use

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

- Adrienne Rich

source: Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Desire, Use, Use It Or Lose It, Inventing, Dreams Do Come True

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

topic: Desire, Might, Revolutionary

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

topic: Desire, True Freedom

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

topic: Passion, Dark, Desire, Passion And Desire

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

topic: Loyalty, Desire, Passionate, Passionate Desire

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

topic: Travel, Mind, Desire, Labradors

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

source: Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1952). “The Gown of Glory”

topic: Desire, Needs, Dry

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

- Agnes Smedley

topic: Russia, Imagination, Desire

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

topic: Change, Land, Desire, Desire To Change, Hamas

Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?

topic: Desire, Humans

Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

topic: Letting Go, Desire, Want

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

- Akira Yoshizawa

topic: Expression, Joy, Desire

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Learning, Desire, Ease

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

- Akkineni Nagarjuna

topic: Buddhist, Desire, Pleasure, Worldly Desires, Worldly Pleasures

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

topic: Passion, Kissing, Desire

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

topic: Kings, Desire, Slave

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Love Is, Smartphones, Desire

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

- Alain de Botton

topic: Desire, May, Littles

I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.

topic: Heart, Goal, Desire

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

topic: Monday, Moving, Desire, Exceed

There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

topic: Curves, Desire, Easy, Learning Curve

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

topic: Order, Lust, Desire, Fear Of Failing

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

topic: Swim, Desire, Want

There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

topic: Desire, Nasty, Horrible

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

topic: Nature, War, Desire, Permanence

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

topic: Desire, Dresses

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

topic: Moving, Creating, Desire, Inventing Things

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

topic: Happiness, Choices, Desire

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

topic: Despair, Nihilism, Desire, Negation

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

topic: Crush, Believe, Desire

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Desire, Self Centered, Personal Desire

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

- Albert J. Nock

source: "Our Enemy, the State" by Albert J. Nock (p. 59), 1935.

topic: Men, Desire, Needs

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Joy, Desire

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Queens, Eye, Desire, Cheeks

VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

- Aleatha Romig

topic: Desire, Suspense, Stories

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

topic: Men, Doubt, Desire

It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

topic: Hands, Desire, World

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ...

topic: People, Desire, Actors

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Contentment, Desire, World

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.

topic: Strong, Rocks, Desire

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Animal, Men, Desire

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Patriotic, Government, Desire, American Revolution, Federal Government

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Motivation, Desire, Incentives, Ruling Passion

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

- Alexander Pope

topic: Men, Thinking, Desire

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.

- Alexander Schmemann

topic: People, Desire, May, Bodily Functions, Utilitarian

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

- Alexander Schmemann

source: Alexander Schmemann (1973). “For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy”, p.14, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

topic: Men, Desire, Life Is

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

- Alexander Smith

source: Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

topic: Heart, Garden, Desire, Inspirational Gardening, Garden Love

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Men, Desire, Poverty

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Men, Desire, Life Is

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Bored, Desire, Hungry, Monte Cristo

In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.

- Alexandre Kojeve

source: Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.4, Cornell University Press

topic: Moving, Men, Desire

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

source: Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.10, Beacon Press

topic: Mean, Desire, Ends, Well Educated

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

- Alfred Brendel

topic: Desire, Needs, Fantastic

My will to live completely overcame my desire to win

source: "The Joy of Six: great Olympians" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2008.

topic: Winning, Desire, Olympic Games, Desire To Win

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Stars, Poetry, Desire, Ulysses, Human Thought

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

- Alfred Tarski

topic: Thinking, Doubt, Desire

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

- Alfred the Great

topic: Men, Remembrance, Desire, Famous Last Words

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

topic: Desire, Delight, Outrun

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Fighting, Desire, Caliphs, Fight The Good Fight, Worth Fighting For

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Mind, Desire

You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress, just as you do not like to be oppressed. Do good to others just as you would like good to be done to you. Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. Accept that treatment from others which you would like others to accept from you. Do not say to others what you do not like to be said to you.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Hate, Desire, Done

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

- Alice Hegan Rice

topic: Desire, Littles, Next, One Minute

Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.

- Alice Hegan Rice

topic: Friendship, Desire, Way

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

- Alison Bechdel

topic: Mind, Desire, Body

There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

- Alison Croggon

topic: Lust, Desire, Force, Blinded

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Spring, Heart, Desire

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

topic: Ambition, Doctors, Desire, Confederate

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

- Allen Weinstein

topic: Desire, Heritage, Fierce, Pivotal

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

- Allen Wheelis

topic: Desire, Despair, Intense

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

topic: Stars, Ambition, Desire

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Desire, Needs, Eras

He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Desire, Saint, Rich

My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Jesus, Desire, Bread

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Jesus, Soul, Desire

The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.

topic: Christian, Church, Desire

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Desire, Denial, Lasts

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Wish, Desire, Tasks

You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

- America Ferrera

source: "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.

topic: Dancing, Desire, Tables, Dancing On Tables

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

- Ammianus Marcellinus

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 148-49, Annales, XXX. 9, 1922.

topic: Wicked, Desire, Done

Never cut loose from your longings.

topic: Cutting, Desire, Longing

It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.

topic: Strong, Determination, Desire, Marriage Anniversary, Strong Desire

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Desire, Safe

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

topic: Intelligent, Feet, Desire, Libre

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

topic: Nbc, Desire, Identity

I have no desire to carry a movie.

topic: Desire

It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

topic: Fire, Broken, Desire, Forest Fires, Prison Time

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

topic: Desire, Feels

She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.

topic: Heart, Two, Desire, Disunity, Dislocation

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

topic: Creative, Desire, Doe

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

topic: Opposites, Suffering, Desire

Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Reality, Progress, Desire, Falsity

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Soul, Mind, Desire, Worldly Desires, Old Soul

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

topic: Sports, Challenges, Desire, Not Responding

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

topic: Art, Wall, Desire

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

topic: Desire, Want, Should

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Anger, Agreement, Desire, Personal Desire

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

- Andreas Gursky

topic: Track, Desire, World

There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Mind, Desire, Superstitions, Lack Of Education

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

source: Andrew Combe (1871). “The Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral: Intended Chiefly for the Use of Parents”, p.251

topic: Children, Desire, Endeavor

Life is a race; desire the goal.

- Andrew Michael Ramsay

topic: Race, Goal, Desire

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

- Andrew Murray

topic: Prayer, Heart, Desire

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (2007). “With Christ in the School of Prayer”, p.170, Lulu.com

topic: Prayer, Desire, Quiet

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

topic: Dark, Desire, Needs

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Pain, Gay, Desire, Subversion, Gay Culture

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

topic: Empowering, Desire, Want, Empower Yourself

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

topic: People, Growth, Desire

If u desire to grow in your relationship w God - don't do it alone. Find a community of people heading in the same direction.

source: FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Feb 23, 2014

topic: People, Community, Desire

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

topic: Distance, Silence, Desire, Away From Each Other, We Need Each Other

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

topic: Giving, Desire, Things I've Learned

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

topic: Loneliness, Desire, Privacy

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

source: "Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.

topic: Desire, Goes On, Obsession, Forms Of Love, Immaculate

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

- Angela Carter

source: Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Love Is, Desire

"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Thinking, Desire, Musician, Micah

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

topic: Thinking, Soul, Desire

In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

topic: Rocks, Sea, Desire

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Communication, Reality, Desire

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

- Anna Godbersen

topic: Desire, Trying, Tone

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

- Anna Howard Shaw

topic: Happiness, Morning, Desire, Desire To Live

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

- Anna Katharine Green

source: Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.701, e-artnow

topic: Artist, Two, Desire

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Government, Church, Desire

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

source: "Exclusive: Anna Sui Discusses Her Spring 2012 Show and Punk Rock Heritage". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.rollingstone.com. September 14, 2011.

topic: Desire, Satisfaction, Longing

I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.

topic: Love Is, Desire, Prove, Prove Myself

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

source: Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”

topic: Sensual, Desire, Longing

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

source: Anna Wickham (1971). “Selected poems”, Chatto & Windus

topic: Desire, Sullen, Slave

I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!

topic: Desire, Stronger, Stereotype

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

topic: Desire, World, Praying, Pray For Me

When I desire you a part of me is gone...

source: Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

topic: Desire, Gone

Desire is no light thing.

topic: Light, Desire

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

source: Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.39, Princeton University Press

topic: Self, Effort, Desire

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

topic: Hate, Axes, Desire, Love And Hate

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

topic: Desire, And Love, Golden, Caustic

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

topic: Desire, And Love, Madness

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

topic: Makeup, Desire, Kinky

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

- Anne Hutchinson

topic: Desire

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

- Anne Hutchinson

topic: Church, Desire, Looks, Commonwealth

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Peace, Desire, Want, Singleness, Purity Of Intention

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

topic: Soul, Desire

Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist.

- Anne Stevenson

source: Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

topic: Silence, Mind, Desire, If You Love Me, Precipice

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

- Annette Bening

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Desire, Attention, Remember, Salesmanship

Being creative is not so much the desire Â to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

topic: Creative, Listening, Desire, Textiles, Dictation

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

topic: Desire, Moments

It's so much better to desire than to have.

topic: Desire

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Opposites, People, Desire, Delinquency

On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

source: Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Depression, Despair, Desire, Fragmentation, Great Hope

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

- Anthony of Padua

topic: Jesus, Lust, Desire, Friars, Desire To Live

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Desire, Creation, Multitudes

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Men, Desire, Language, Variance

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Wish, Desire, Want

Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: INDULGENCE INSTEAD OF ABSTINENCE

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Frustration, Desire, Satanic, Satanism

I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

- Antoni Tapies

source: "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

topic: Generosity, Desire, Needs

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

- Antonio Lobo Antunes

topic: Desire, Skins, Legs, Tiredness, Rigidity

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

- Antonio Porchia

topic: Desire, Action, Made

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

- Antonio Tabucchi

topic: Dream, Jobs, Desire

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

- Antony Gormley

topic: Art, Thinking, Desire, Public Art

I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a classical variation there should never be any thought of a dancer doing a variation--he should become identified with it.

topic: Dance, Self, Desire

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

- Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

topic: Peace, Important, Desire

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

topic: Life, Desire, Hammers

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

topic: Expression, Giving, Desire

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

- Ari Fleischer

topic: Fighting, Desire, Terrorism, Bipartisan

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

topic: Love, Names, Desire

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

topic: Curiosity, Desire, Wonder, Desire To Learn

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

topic: Law, Desire, Reason

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

topic: Mean, Desire, Permit

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

topic: Thinking, Desire, Divine, Celestial

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

topic: Believe, People, Desire, Nicomachean Ethics

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

topic: Children, Men, Desire

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

topic: Desire, Mankind, Possession

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

topic: Mean, Desire, Purpose

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

topic: Desire, Doe, Good Things

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

topic: Mean, Desire, Should

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

topic: Men, Desire, Unions

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

topic: Soul, Desire, Principles, Amenable

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Inspiring, Achievement, Desire

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Powerful, Book, Desire

Humor was the enemy of desire.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Enemy, Desire

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

topic: Pride, Agreement, Desire

Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the ground in which the mind's contents manifest themselves; they appear in it and disappear once again.

- Arthur J. Deikman

topic: Memories, Mind, Desire

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

source: Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

topic: Strong, Desire, Reason, Tamed

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

- Arthur Peacocke

topic: Selfish, Humanity, Desire, Personal Values, Transcendent

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Sacrifice, Men, Desire, Harlots

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Philosophical, Men, Desire

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