There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“But human flesh is weak. And the human spirit is weak as well — before curiosity, before desire, before doubt.” — Ruslana Pidsadiuk Copy Share Image
When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole. — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages. — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“The human yearning for innocent pastime is a pathetic thing, come to think about it. It shows what a desperately grim thing… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this,… — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs: Despite the artful tensions of the calendar, The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites, The… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“No person was one single emotion; no person had only one desire. They had many, and usually those desires conflicted with one… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
America has never been moved to perfect our desire for greater democracy without radical thinking and radical voices being at the helm… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“So drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away, drive away from Derry, from memory...but not from… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself, Trust in God. You possess the inner drive to accomplish all of your desires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Desire to learn. Desire to read. Desire to think. Desire to write.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When desire stops, there is no more fear. We are then truly free, peaceful, and happy.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. — Democritus Copy Share Image
Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear and doubts paralyze the mind. Faith and courage empowers you for greatness. — Ore Abayomi Copy Share Image
“Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Fasting turns each moment of craving into a prayer of intense dependence.” — Gary Rohrmayer Copy Share Image
