Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire. — Sinead O'Connor 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
It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
“The energy of all our objects transforms according to our use and handling of them. Cleanups are important not only in an… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of… — Nell Grey Copy Share Image
In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment. — Norm MacDonald 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
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each… — William Gifford Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
