I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
We grew up in the country, without much access to film. The fact that we didn't have any real relationship to movies… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“A part of love just contains with desire to seek a pleasure and sometimes we don't need a heart to reach it.… — ikke achmad Copy Share Image
The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
Why some desires remain just desires, why some pains never leave you, whywe cant forget the ones we want to, why tears… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“With each passing year our tolerance for unpleasant sensations decreases, and our craving for pleasant sensations increases. Both scientific research and economic… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The fatal combination of indulgence without feeling disgusts me. Strange to be both greedy and dead. For myself, I prefer to hold… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
God created the heavens and the earth to reveal His glory. Don't allow creation to eclipse and steal the worship God desires… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we… — Nina George Copy Share Image
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I’m using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a… — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
“She's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited… — David Punter Copy Share Image
“Men theorize about love, but women are more often love's practitioners. Most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal,… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
“There is something to be said about being the object of one’s desire, that you have all the control, but being craved… — Mayandree Michel Copy Share Image
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where… — Denison Witmer Copy Share Image
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was… — Isha Judd Copy Share Image
“God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world—but the fact those yearnings often come… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for… — Bayazid Bastami Copy Share Image
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up… — Jason Lloyd Copy Share Image
