The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence. — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
“Life is what it is...And even without having everything you desire...It is still gloriously beautiful...” — Virginia Alison Copy Share Image
I'll be happy. I'll be a successful person. I'll make my mom proud, maybe not now but someday... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Little Woods' came out of a desire to want to worry about people who are not like me and not where I'm… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. — Noah Taylor Copy Share Image
Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time. — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything. — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I put my head out of my window and see how much the wind’s knife wants to slice it off. On this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart,… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The whole world can be happy on us. The world is not wrong. Our hunger gets in the way. When the hunger… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commune with like-minded… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
“Why is there this everlasting craving to be loved? Listen carefully. You want to be loved because you do not love; but… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them,… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Most people think of ways why their desires or goals would fail, instead of thinking of ways why they will succeed. Do… — Angela Williamson Copy Share Image
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning. — Hafez Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Something within me drives me loopy, this is called passion, determination, desire to dream wild dreams continuously.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When we can't have the things that we want, We start to realize the real value of what we already have. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
TalkTalk's culture is one of a start-up... new services, desire to innovate, move fast. — Dido Harding Copy Share Image
“Asking why isn’t about the survival of the fittest; it is about the soul’s craving for meaning.” — Erwin Raphael McManus Copy Share Image
Failure is just another chapter in life and death is just another volume — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
“One may even have ‘greed’ for self-respect. Greed gives rise to circumstances. When circumstance arises, worldly life arises.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If doing what you want is something that you'll regret in the morning, then sleep in late. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs. — Jaejoong Copy Share Image
