“the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Do you believe that you really have a desire to learn, or would you, had you been left alone from birth, be… — William H. Armstrong Copy Share Image
I man once asked a Buddha, I want happiness. The Buddha replied, First, remove 'I.' That's ego. Then remove 'want.' That's desire.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good. ... desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I wanna dance in the rain ; I wanna play insane ; I wanna rejoice the spring ; I wanna jump in… — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
“The images start to darken and she feels another hunger well up in her, this one having to do with another kind… — Melissa St. Hilaire Copy Share Image
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires… — Plato Copy Share Image
The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Before anything else, I need your trust. Your absolute trust in me--and yourself. You have to know you are the only woman… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping… — Stelios Haji-Ioannou Copy Share Image
“The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“ Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be. Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
“It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
When we focus mostly on our immediate needs, wants, and desires, we may achieve some of them but hardly feel satisfied. When… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“There are more kinds of belonging than you know, Ronit, my joy. The world is not so easily categorized as you might… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Creating a fan base of both fervent feelers and fanboys, Trump magnificently played off many fawning commentator's insecurities - using the deep… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“believe that desire is God-given, and that following that impulse is using your intuition. It will lead you to the correct place.… — Mandy Ingber Copy Share Image
“An unsuspected yearning uncovered, discovered. For a simpler time and a simpler life. Before Internet, and climate change, and terrorism. When neighbors… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
To be honest, while every market is very different, we are all still fundamentally moved and inspired by similar human truths -… — David Droga Copy Share Image
“We act as a conduit for the observers’ unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river,… — Guy Mankowski Copy Share Image
I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
