“He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feebler, and by one's passions,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results,… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“desire for God’s presence, provision, and protection. No matter where we are, our desire should be for God because only he satisfies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“Life is never perfect. Even the strongest crumble and fall to their knees. Even legends say enough is enough. There's also a… — Shey Stahl Copy Share Image
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’m heartened by our dissatisfaction, because dissatisfaction is a world away from indifference. The widespread nostalgia, the yearning for a past that… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
A bride should look at {everything} she possibly can...just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“He was so stark and male and beautiful that she hungered for him. Physically, to be sure. But also from someplace even… — Dorien Kelly Copy Share Image
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Love me without fear / Trust me without questioning / Need me without demanding / Want me without restrictions / Accept me… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices,… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives.… — Jonathan LaPaglia Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments,… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“Do you have a dream or desire that is burning a hole in your soul? Something that lights your fire and brings… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
A lot of people produce podcasts in which they simply ramble on for hours about themselves and their lives. There is something… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
