“Show me a man that is not passion's slave and I will wear him in my heart's core.” — Shakespeare, William Copy Share Image
“Part those sheets like holy waters and I will worship you skin like a born-again believer.” — Tyler Knott Gregson 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
The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it,… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
We live in a world of breathtaking material plenty. That has freed hundreds of millions of people from day-to-day struggles and liberated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep… — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
“My love, you are playing with a fire that you do not fully understand.” His voice was deep and controlled. “There are… — Tina Carreiro Copy Share Image
No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind,… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He… — David Corn Copy Share Image
When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Want to know who I am? Your responses indicate that you have a normal desire to share yourself with others. However, this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. — Gautama Buddha 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
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
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
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
