“You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so!… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac. — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be… — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
“I wish you wouldn't have given the sundial bracelet to Terease" "Why?" I question and press my head onto his chest, pushing… — Michelle Warren Copy Share Image
“In Kant’s description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject’s homeostatic balance, its unbearable… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled. — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“Shining with craving, his emerald gaze penetrated her soul. "I desire you so much". His whisper melted her heart. His soft touch… — Chris Lange Copy Share Image
One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
With one or two children at home, I feel that parents concentrate too much on them and hence children lose touch with… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The heart knows not of distance, space nor time. It meshes to the fabric of its desire & follows on an immeasurable continuum.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
I became an actor only as a result of Madhuri Dixit. I was watching 'Ram Lakhan,' and her song 'Bada dukh dina'… — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are… — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
“I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need:… — M.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“I'de like to show you every last shred of the desire I have for you, and make you mine complety. But you… — Sadie Matthews Copy Share Image
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our defence works the same way every game: a desire to win, a desire to not concede, a desire to make the… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act… — Juvenal Copy Share Image