Quotes about desire
desire energy
I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore. Thomas Kretschmann
desire slavery states
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. Thomas Jefferson
desire height impossible
Impossible desires are the height of unreason. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
desire assuming courses
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. Victoria Woodhull
desire lasts necks
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living. Victor Hugo
desire shameful
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
desire advancement moral
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
desire cruelty
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. Veronica Roth
desire saving investment
Always desire to learn something useful Sophocles
desire doe genius
Genius never desires what does not exist. Soren Kierkegaard
desire deeds savages
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery. Tanith Lee
desire feminism classic
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end. Sylvia Plath
desire trying atoms
Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires. Swami Vivekananda
desire body superstitions
Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.
desire found
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire. Rumi
desire way lovers
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.
desire knows
In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.
desire poison abandon
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you...
desire want what-you-want
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
desire one-love wrangling
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.
desire genius machines
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. Todd Gitlin
desire moguls driven
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
desire moments given
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. Stephen Covey
desire
Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious. Sun Tzu
desire impossible making-peace
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. Norman Angell
desire matter likes
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied. Miguel de Cervantes
desire want partners
The living all assemble! What's the cue?-- Do what the clumsy partner wants to do! Theodore Roethke
desire facts conform
Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts. Margaret Drabble
desire answers molecules
No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules Meg Cabot
desire stronger records
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut. Max Beckmann
desire drs needs
You want to be a good person, don't you, Pat?' I nod. I cry. I do want to be a good person, I really do. 'I'm going to up your meds,' Dr. Patel tells me. 'You might feel a little sluggish, but it should help to curb your violent outbursts. You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire. Matthew Quick
desire needs action
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
desire trouble knows
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire. Plautus