All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach for only the least realistic of our desires, and… — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something,… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The woman had followed every single move of the Prince's fingers on her hand and felt very fine when the guy put… — Chiara Cilli Copy Share Image
You say you desire me, you say you want to be with me, you say you love me, I look into your… — Harriet Morgan Copy Share Image
'Survivor' is a game that's designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don't have a clear payoff.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed,… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We have to know cognitively what another mind is thinking and also empathically what they're feeling. And of course, in general, that's… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If you are weakened by the pains of hunger and poverty, with no money in your pockets, and no one will give… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha says: Life should be simple, not complex. Life should be based on needs, not on desires. Needs are perfectly okay: you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Saying yes to God isn't about perfect performance, but rather perfect surrender to the Lord day by day. Your obedience becomes radical… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“wanted her and no force on Earth could stop my craving! When, at last, we parted slightly, I took no more than… — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“I thought to myself how we were so wrapped up in this animal act, that he couldn’t care less about his tea… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. With him I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
