It is the link between satisfaction and redress–the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy–that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire–make it literally...

The things you don’t know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.

The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two beings. When I return to Hugo in the evening, to the peace and...

Material things may satisfy your temporal desires, but none can be taken with you when you’re gone. Build your hopes on things eternal !

We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohesive whole, … Most of the time when we put on records it’s...

freedom of choice,” then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact.

He pulled my head back further, and I could hear his ragged breathing as his mouth came close to my ear, sounding so desperate for me. God, I was turned on so much…

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Desire is inspired by motivation, which gives us hope to believe in ourselves that we can set goals and pursue them successfully.

When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls.

Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way.

People desire power. I don’t know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

In the end one loves one’s desire and not what is desired.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What...

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.

Gerdanlouk, he thinks. An evocative Turkish word, with Arabic roots. It means jewelry, but only jewelry adorning a woman between her lower neck and the top of her breasts. Gerdanlouk. He looks away.

Awards represent achievement, and to an extent they show more about who you are as a person than the personal items you picked out and purchased, because they show desire, ambition, goals, and accomplishment.

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan...

We mistakenly assume that bodily survival has a higher precedence than ego survival. This is simply not generally true. Ego will happily destroy the body for its own sake. Look at overweight executives headed for...

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Life cannot deny you of what you desired when you are committed to your dreams

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

God’s greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

All I wanted was to share myself with him…in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.

The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior to more mundane desires shows how skilled the mind is at justifying any...

Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,you ruin what was almost ripe.Therefore the Master takes actionby letting things take their course.He remains as calm at the end...

Almost everybody gets tired and bored by one lackadaisical topic. If you hit them with something delicious, like a sexy adventure, then the world will want to hear you speak, mind you! Don’t become a...

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it’s the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

She couldn’t turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there was something that sparked with warmth, that kept those eyes from being cold.

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union,...

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

there is nothing perfectly beautiful except what is invisible and above all unbuyable.

As for girls, they must risk everything for freedom, and give everything for passion… loving everything that their hearts and their bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a...

What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others, as you want to be respected by them.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

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. Though...

Beneath my dress is a ladder of desire,that I climb tonight and each night after that.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….

Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone’s soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. ~ Isadora Conti to Grayson van Court

But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman’s dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Love is the reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror…

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

I knew if I started touching you I wouldn’t be able to stop.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...