The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Where there is desire There is gonna be a flame Where there is a flame Someone's bound to get burned But just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He acts without contact, instructs without meeting, guides without pointing. Desires do not conflict with Him, thoughts do not mingle with Him:… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Even a beautiful God-scripted love story can never satisfy the way Jesus does...And until we are able to truly make Him our… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
Netanyahu is partnering up with Boehner to kick Obama in the teeth and sabotage one of the president's top diplomatic priorities. He… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen… — Gayle D. Erwin Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Look inside me Past these layers of skin Look in my eyes Hear my cries in the dark At my fumbling that… — Sonia Valencia Singh Copy Share Image
Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“The women who hate me hate their insistent desires, their fat lusts swallowed and hidden, disciplined to nothing narrowed to bone and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes.… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials,… — Madeleine Sophie Barat Copy Share Image
“Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and… — Ernest Barbaric Copy Share Image
If nothing else, know that your children's passion and desire to play baseball is something that they can do without throwing a… — John Smoltz Copy Share Image
I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
