Bird Quote by Belva Plain Download Open image “How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!” — Belva Plain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bird Caught Desire Helpless
“Alas! Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary for him… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by… — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson. — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
All life is a pattern... but we can not always see the pattern when we are part of it. — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
“Such moods do not last unless the possessor of them is prepared to wither away, and Eve was not about to let herself wither.” — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away. — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling… — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music. — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it. — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
“common arrangement, but it can be done if you know the right people.” — Belva Plain Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
