“Perhaps you should exhibit some of the character you are showing this evening in a more public forum," he said. "I'll admit… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Their lovemaking was different from any Ryan had known, rich with desire for a perfect union, yet without lust, giving without taking,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Deep inside each human being is a spirit that hungers for movement and for growth. A live and burgeoning ball of energy,… — Joe De Sena Copy Share Image
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
“one passion can only be cured by another—a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions… — Jacques Philippe Copy Share Image
If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]: You tell yourself that you can take Jeeves stories or leave them alone, that one more… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in… — Ilya Kovalchuk Copy Share Image
Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
My films are not really constructed films, as much as remembered films. I've got this desire to catch traces of memory, but… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“Consider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to the world after we die. If self-interests were the primary source… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy… — Augustus Copy Share Image
“In the long run, the pessimism of reactionaries never proves to be justified, but neither does the optimism of revolutionaries. The expansion… — René Girard Copy Share Image
it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
I wrestled a lot with self-doubt. I've always had such a strong desire for what I wanted for my career, and as… — Diane Birch Copy Share Image
We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more.… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Like all who are impassioned, I take blissful delight in losing myself, in fully experiencing the thrill of surrender. And so I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image