“But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
I don't want to overstate tantra because I'm sure there are scumbags everywhere, but it seems like it's an ideology that actually… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“It is of course possible to give more elaborate answers to the perennial question: why climb? In his writing and lectures, George… — Peter Gillman Copy Share Image
That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers.… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In the dream state, the mind and soul are set free to create as they please, to imagine vast worlds not tied… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
There is within the hearts of people a deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it,… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room… — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression… — Helen Lynd Copy Share Image
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know, That the only difference, Between, you n' I, Is the flavour, of choice, And the dimension, of thoughts, Through the… — Ashley Byrnes Copy Share Image
I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other… — David Berman Copy Share Image
The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That… — Jon Beason Copy Share Image
I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
When two who have suffered find each other, the bond is like steel. They become each others' soul mates and comfort from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling.… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant… — Rumi Copy Share Image