We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt...

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings…but there’s something dead about it,...

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda’s intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

Each of us has immense potential to achieve what we desire, unless you enliven and enlighten your life with inspiration, bring your dreams into reality through the power of desire you will never shine as...

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something–something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the...

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose...

Don’t just get what you need; achieve what you want.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.

will I ever get over the pull I feel to both of these places?

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

Now, I’m not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise...

Now do you understand why I’m interested in you? You’re a locked door, sweetheart. You give no one a key and you never answer the door when anyone knocks…Ah, but sometimes, sometimes I get a...

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.

Before she can stop herself, she thinks about desire, how it lives within you and yet is separate, surfacing when it chooses, without permission, in the harsh afternoon light, at the moment when you least...

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have surplus resources in spite of living in abject penury situations.

We will have at the end of this process a government that derives its legitimacy from the free desire of the Iraqi people,

Lances and swords, marching bands, thrones and the salutes of others only increase his desire; he is engrossed in sexual desire.

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of...

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else’s desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things...

I want you to fuck me, Chris,’ I said, lustfully whispering the words into his ear as he planted kisses on my neck. His lips were wild and yearning, eagerly devouring me.

The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the...

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

To teach, ignite the fire of desire to learn.

The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Pain is something that we all feel sometimes; however, some of us see it as an opportunity for mental growth, while others interpret theirs as a definite end to their goals, dreams or desires.

The man who never weakens when things are against him will grow stronger and stronger until all things will delight to be for him. He will finally have all the strength he may desire or...

To be God’s people, to love Him fervently with whole hearts, is our sole desire.

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed...

I made plans out of hope, expectation, desire, and duct tape, and I broke those plans with my bare hands.

While I appreciate my colleagues’ desire to try to draw you out on your personal views about matters, I think you have drawn the line at an appropriate place,

He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up and now all I could sense was his need for me.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

Desire, Desire, Desire!Desire to love,Desire to live,Desire to learn,Desire to dream,Desire to give,Desire to forgive,Desire to grow.

There’s mainstream pornography–soft-core airbrushed fluff such as Penthouse and Playboy. The folks makin’ this stuff do men and their range of desires a disservice; their implication is that anything outside the “big hair, fake tits,...

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

If you desire something, and trust that it will come to you, then you will have it.

Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much you ate indicated the quantity of your desire. Walter was also implying that...

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy...

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

If you desire ease, forsake learning.