Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Growing up, I loved films like 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'On the Waterfront' and became a huge fan of Marlon Brando. — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
--Love is the desire to know the person more & know the person better. And after knowing, you desire to stay forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear,… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing.… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Desire For Thee" My desire to love thee is just like a tree, must have one root but several branches of fruit… — Seema Gupta Copy Share Image
I know I didn't do anything to desire the talent, that God gave me. What a blessing it is to throw a… — Clayton Kershaw Copy Share Image
The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.” — Missionaries Who Love The Arab World Copy Share Image
