Desire Quote by David Lodge Download Open image “Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.” — David Lodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Habit Habits
“People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really… — Lorne Ladner Copy Share Image
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“We’re a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the individual is… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“perhaps it will I said perhaps it will be wonderful perhaps even though it won't be like you think perhaps that won't matter perhaps” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Cica in fiecare grasan se afla cate-un slabanog care se lupta sa iasa la lumina, iar eu unul ii aud strigatele inabusite ori de… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person? ” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“It was said that the view through the open window above the urinal, straight across the Bay to the Silver Span, was the finest… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Our friends started life with too many beliefs -- the penalty of a Catholic upbringing. They were weighted down with beliefs, useless answers to… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
