We have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
“The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that,… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“He lashed the belt against my ass again, and I was starting to feel like I was some supernatural being that was… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Our culture teaches that sex is for the sexy, and the only way to be sexy is to be pretty. No wait--that's… — Vinnie Tesla Copy Share Image
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“Я пережил свои желанья / I've lived to bury my desires Я пережил свои желанья, Я разлюбил свои мечты; Остались мне одни… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don't have one desire, you have many desires. Not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace; and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Another Quarter Pounder sometimes seems like a good idea- but I always regret later. Only in hindsight do we see how God… — Christopher Ruddy Copy Share Image
Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The feeling, the irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The trouble with being an angel on Earth was that he was still a man. He got hungry. He thirsted. His lungs… — Erin Kellison Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Do Not Wait For Me (By Mimi Mata) Do not wait for me... My craving sent me elsewhere I yearn for some… — Mimi Mata (Aspiring Writer Copy Share Image
Almost any modern video camera can take stills, so there's always this fresh crop of kids that like making things and moving… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty… — Larry Bakersfield Copy Share Image
“Work and boredom.- Looking for work in order to be paid: in civilized countries today almost all men are at one in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is the choices… — Roger Walsh Copy Share Image
Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“If there is no love, what is there?" she cried, almost jeering. "There is," he said, in a voice of pure abstraction,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Such is my desire only to see the best parts of my partner and vice-versa that I must confess to being able… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people don't understand the makeup of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program population, of the food stamp population,… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
