The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Human desires cannot be extinguished. Even Buddha, with all his sweet teachings, is not immune to seeking fame and followers. Thus, leaving… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She fluttered her fan. “And do you know what they say of women of a certain age, what they want above all?”… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“If you challenge yourself to live as though it were your last week, your mind may come up with all kinds of… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation, the will to involve oneself in the body of the… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Wanting to get married, for me, is all about a desire to feel chosen.” She went on to write that while the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“Hunter had been proud of few possessions during his life. He had, of course, been proud of his first bow and his… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place where she could… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“To begin with, at home I spent most of my time reading. I wanted to stifle all that was continuously boiling up… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The two genres that probably take the most flack in literature - they are young adult and romance right now. I don't… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite… — Evan Guerra Copy Share Image
When you love a teacher very much - as I did Olivier Messiaen - you do have to leave them.One of the… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“The first desire for each of us is the longing to be the phallus for the mother. Phallus here refers not to… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off his body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“Quote from BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN – pgs. 86 -87 “A Kiss”: I went to snatch my hand away, but Trent caught my hand… — Sherry Soule Copy Share Image
You are the love you seek. You are the companionship you desire. You are your own completion, your own wholeness. You are… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When there's a strong desire within you to express or create something, know that this feeling is Divine discontent. Your longing is… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image