“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être .]” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Freedom wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the best way to find what you really desire in life is to stop looking for it.” — T.R. Wallace Copy Share Image
“She opened her eyes and stared into a face filled with desire. It was an expression she longed to see a man… — Lacy Danes Copy Share Image
“Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
You're much more likely to reach your goals if they're your goals, speaking to your desires, rather than the desires of outside… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mimetic desire enables us to escape from the animal realm. It is responsible for the best and the worst in us, for… — René Girard Copy Share Image
It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
“When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it,… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image