Desire Quote by Orson Scott Card Download Open image ““If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”” — Orson Scott Card ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
“Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Desire has no reason, and the need for intimacy had never stopped. I had not conjured up the images in years, his lips on… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
“To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“...desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same steady heartbeat… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“No, my desire for marriage had nothing to do with sex or money or family; it had everything to do with not wanting to… — Debra Fileta Copy Share Image
“How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need to be… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
“Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Sex had nothing to do with feeling good, everything to do with superficialities, and was always accompanied by a masochistic agenda to feel anything… — Justin Donner Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That… — Nina George Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card 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
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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
