The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me.… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Were studying in Philippians, and Im trying to figure out this passage, Paul says I want to know Christ. What does that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Men as well as women, must strive for a balance of experience. Masculinity, defined as requiring the ability to act physically or… — Eva Cox Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned… — David Weber Copy Share Image
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you want to stay with someone, not only because it's magic and it's promising and it feels like home; but sometimes… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. It is also true that you can… — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
“I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Failure's sleeve cannot help but brush against the back of gratified desires and insatiability is inevitably left to gaze with smoldering eyes… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand… — Fran Tarkenton Copy Share Image
I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
On a serious level, I wouldnt tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldnt ever reveal that,… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
What I was being told in my 20s in the close-quartered, male-ego-infused work space, was that I had to stop reacting with… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
A family's desire to be able to keep its health insurance when changing jobs or geography (a problem that Obamacare doesn't make… — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
“… mourning is a paradoxical process in which a person must affirm precisely those orphaned desires that are most unrealistic and impossible… — Sandra Buechler Copy Share Image
“We have to be diligent in seeking after God, emotionally attached and consciously aware of Him at all times. The desire for… — Etta Dale Hornsteiner Copy Share Image
“But there was nothing except this languid contentment of satisfied desire, as if the rules had changed or the world wasn't the… — G.B. Gordon Copy Share Image
Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
