Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It's probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I'm sure I'm more guilty of being difficult… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Britten's opera tends to see things in simpler terms. It portrays an Aschenbach who wants a richer form of sexual fulfillment, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one,… — Seth Copy Share Image
I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders,… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of… — William Law Copy Share Image
I enjoy Chicago as one of the great American cities. When I come here and take a taxi from the airport, I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief.… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Many of us have moments of weakness when we feel as if our cravings have taken us captive or left us out… — Sheri Rose Shepherd Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If your wife briefly corrects someone with "Actually, I'm bisexual" during conversation, it hardly sounds like attempting to remain an object of… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
“...the erotic is as natural as drinking water. Sometimes we sip it. Sometimes we gulp it. Sometimes we devour it. And yes,… — R.B. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I… — El-P Copy Share Image
I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I’d want our wedding to be special. I don’t have a dress, you don’t have a best man, and instead of flowers,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“This Buddhist view of happiness has a lot in common with the biochemical view. Both agree that pleasant sensations disappear as fast… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be… — Khalid ibn al-Walid Copy Share Image
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“There was no mistaking the look in his eyes. Pain wrenched her heart. All those skills she had developed so painstakingly as… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“And she didn’t want to escape. She wanted to be kissed in the sunlight by a gorgeous man. She just wanted some… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Imagine all of L.A. filled with windup men wandering empty-headed and waiting for orders and directions and purpose. That’s L.A. in a… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Nestled deep within the hills and valleys or our deepest desires, we are already everything we wish to be. Our infinite potential… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you… — Henry Suso Copy Share Image
