It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Let us remember to always rediscover one another because we are forever changing.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required. — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged… — Virginia H. Pearce Copy Share Image
When you truly desire change, your conscious mind chooses the positive, new action. — Marshall Sylver Copy Share Image
I do think that people have a desire to talk about issues they may have wanted to avoid before. — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Often sugar cravings are linked to emotional needs; when we learn to identify those emotions and when they arise, we can go… — Alejandro Junger Copy Share Image
“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are… — Iris Smyles Copy Share Image
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts,… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
“Among my greatest loves is the act of being pinned and invaded – not by one, or two or three, but by… — Emmanuelle de Maupassant Copy Share Image
"Bhagavad Gita" is an examination of consciousness and the desire of human beings and the quest that we have as human beings… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“You're confusing desire and love,' she said, watching him. 'They are not the same.' 'I do love you. I feel near to… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Desire lies at the heart of who God made us to be, who we are at our core. Desire is both our… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
When philosophers talk about reason they often have in mind Having been in the business of philosophy more than half my life,… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently. — Doug Hoffman Copy Share Image
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
If you desire one thing for so long, its a given that you will miss other things along the way. Thats how… — Berserk Copy Share Image
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. — Plato Copy Share Image
