Quotes about desire
desire causes immortality
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death. Otto Weininger
desire weakness words-of-sympathy
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda Ouida
desire female different
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities. Kathy Acker
desire reunion states
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. Paul Tillich
desire wipe departure
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. Paul de Man
desire care wells
I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well. Patrick Chan
desire speak christ
Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him. Martin Luther
desire spirit changed
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
desire collaboration study
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. Nicole Kidman
desire taste lips
She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires Nick Bantock
desire ends escalation
Is there no end to this escalation of desire? Marya Mannes
desire levels gestures
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. Marya Hornbacher
desire want underestimate
Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?
desire needs subconscious
Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium. Nellie McKay
desire hunger states
Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger. Mary Roach
desire violence surrender
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. Marquis de Sade
desire tendencies willing
To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves. Mark Epstein
desire goes-on lectures
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. Mary MacLane
desire riches poverty
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. Mark Twain
desire
What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become. Neal A. Maxwell
desire islam ancient
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society. Maajid Nawaz
desire islam administration
The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. Louis Farrakhan
desire leading-ladies
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue. Melanie Lynskey
desire may virtue
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious. Michel de Montaigne
desire natural plus
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
desire want body
I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. Marguerite Duras
desire watches may
The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests. Marguerite Yourcenar
desire wanted feels
I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better. Mikhail Gorbachev
desire common easy
Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common. Mitchell Zuckoff
desire vietnam flopping
It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam. Mitt Romney
desire path succeed
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
desire sin moments
At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God. R. C. Sproul
desire ought
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. Publilius Syrus