Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
We read advertisements ... to discover and enlarge our desires. — Daniel J. Boorstin 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
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without a knack for working hard, a person must realize that they will never get as far in life that they desire… — Anurag Prakash Ray 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
Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you. — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Venus's life story across 5,000 years reminds us not to trivialise the power of desire: the ancients were right to never underestimate… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
It is easy to change a positive thought into a negative one and a negative one into a positive one. But only… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“I looked with longing at honors, wealth, and marriage, and you laughed at me. Amidst such desires I suffered most bitter troubles,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Be like a sponge and desire the Lord with everything that's within you. Every case that does that, they are on the… — John Arnott Copy Share Image
The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent;… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires… — Ibn Ishaq Copy Share Image
