God's reason for creating Adam was the desire to reproduce himself. — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
“The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire.” — Missy Lyons Copy Share Image
Sometimes you worry when young kids get too much too early are they going to lose that hunger and desire? — Darren Bent Copy Share Image
“Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.” — Gita Mehta Copy Share Image
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“of high-quality polyunsaturated fatty acids. They are very filling, and consuming these products will usually reduce your sugar cravings, simply because you… — Mary Anderson Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down.… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all… — William Law Copy Share Image
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of… — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power. — Hugh W. Pinnock Copy Share Image
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn. — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“There is no fire like lust, no vise like hatred, no trap like delusion, and no galloping river like craving.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness. — Leo Hindery Copy Share Image
I desire the good-will of all, whether hitherto my friends or not. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
“thrilled by the dark look of desire. She thrived on men’s desire for her. It made the sexual high that much greater” — Jasmine Haynes Copy Share Image
“There were so many things mingled in his expression--yearning, disappointment, and yes, love.” — Claire Cross Copy Share Image
