After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A person cannot be at once a libertine and a married Romantic, however compelling both paradigms might be.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Some of you were born with talent, some weren't. Some of you are lucky and got everything for free, some of you… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
“There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“All desires originate to seek betterment unconsciously. In awareness, the same desires dissolve into realization.” — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The brittle bones beneath my chest cracked, piercing my heart. It was you who breathed new life into my lungs and it… — Sonya Watson Copy Share Image
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
I looked at what my talents and desires are and decided to start my own business. I like the advantage of being… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
I have no desire to be a politician. The role of chairman is not a politically aligned role, although it's all based… — Adam Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.” — Andy Paula Copy Share Image
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Obama administration was filled with people that had deep resentment for people successful in the private sector, in business or what… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication, there is a delay in receiving the expected gift. He has guaranteed that… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image