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Desire Quotes
"Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries."
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"Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest."
28
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
20
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
18
"We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire."
14
"My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful."
11
"I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have I managed to get something I really wanted. Not once. Can you believe it? You can't understand what it's like to live like that. When you get used to that kind of life--of never having anything you want--then you stop knowing what it is you want."
9
"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
9
"Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality."
7
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
7
"When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore."
7
"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
6
"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."
6
"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
6
"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement."
6
"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
6
"Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire."
6
"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."
6
"For long minutes, we stood there. Until I said, "Let's go find somewhere to eat " outside. "Hmmm. He showed no sign of letting go. I looked up at last. Found his eyes shining with that familiar, wicked light. "I think I'm hungry for something else, he purred. My toes curled in my boots, but I lifted my brows and said cooly, "Oh? Rhys nipped at my earlobe, then whispered in my ear as he winnowed us up to our bedroom, where two plates of food now waited on the desk. "I owe you for last night, mate. He gave me the courtesy, at least, of letting me pick what he consumed first; me or the food. I picked wisely."
6
"You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well."
6
"I slept with her because she was hot and wanted me. Maybe we're dealing with the supernatural, but I'm still human."
6
"I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready."
6
"As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her with growing pleasure. In front of him was kneeling the directress, being humiliated by a subordinate; in front of him a naked revolutionary was being humiliated by prayer; in front of him a praying lady was being humiliated by her nakedness.This threefold image of degradation intoxicated him and something unexpected suddenly happened: his body revoked its passive resistance. Edward was excited!As the directress said, 'And lead us not into temptation,' he quickly threw off all his clothes. When she said, 'Amen,' he violently lifted her off the floor and dragged her onto the couch."
6
"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
6
"We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers."
6
"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
5
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
5
"It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made."
5
"I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey."
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