“Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We betray our true selves when we do not follow the heart's desire, for what the heart is attracted to, is your… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Wise people know the difference between what they desire and what they actually deserve. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“My case rests on the rights of desire,’ he says. ‘On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.” — JM Coetzee Copy Share Image
I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“If there is a real desire, if the thing desired is really light, the desire for light produces it. There is a… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The gift of truth is the highest gift. The taste of truth is the sweetest taste. The joy of truth is the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
The president desires a peaceful resolution of the confrontation with North Korea and we'll continue to pursue that, but it all begins… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire… — John Earle Copy Share Image
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
“Because a new love affair always gives hope, the irrational mortal loneliness is always crowned, that thing I saw (that horror of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did. — Princess Stephanie of Monaco Copy Share Image
