To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. — Euripides Copy Share Image
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond... — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
What you want is possible. Remember -- if you can dream it, you can do it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Our defence works the same way every game: a desire to win, a desire to not concede, a desire to make the… — Ruben Dias Copy Share Image
The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I'de like to show you every last shred of the desire I have for you, and make you mine complety. But you… — Sadie Matthews Copy Share Image
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need:… — M.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are… — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
I became an actor only as a result of Madhuri Dixit. I was watching 'Ram Lakhan,' and her song 'Bada dukh dina'… — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
I think the desire to be a journalist started post-911. I'm Syrian American. I speak fluent Arabic. I'd come back to the… — Arwa Damon Copy Share Image
In my desire to distance myself from sadistic Christians who revel in the idea of wrath and punishment, I may have crossed… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a… — Connie Wanek Copy Share Image
The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say ‘Please, for just one… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“[...]while we all have the capacity to do harder things, we also have the desire to do exactly the opposite.” — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow. — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
Life is about running after your dream and never backing down or giving up! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The history of our desires is the is the story of how we lose ourselves to them.” — Tiffany Watt Smith Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth felt as if every cell in her body was aflame with desire.” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Everyone desires trust, appreciation, love, respect, support, friendship and success. — Enhance Dreams Copy Share Image
“Her eyelids lowered, and her irises darkened a shade, flickering with unmistakable desire. “All I want is you.” — Lisa Carlisle Copy Share Image
I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair. — Cyrus Broacha Copy Share Image
“the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future. — Linda Stone Copy Share Image