Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven–that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about...

Investors are being cautiously optimistic. There’s a desire to put money back into the market based on a feeling that the worst of the economy may be behind us, … However, there’s not enough evidence...

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.

The smile of lovers is gondola of their desire. (Des amoureux le sourire – Est gondole de leur désir.)

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

I’ve never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I’ve never had a desire to work there.

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in...

O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America’s footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date...

His proximity, that damn smile, just makes me hot in all the right places, but also pissed as hell. I don’t know if I should knee him in the balls or hump his leg like...

When we can’t understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to...

I bought you a gift. It’s something I’ve always wanted, but I’m not quite sure you’ll like it. So if you don’t want it just tell me and I’ll be happy to keep it. After...

Man is no star, but a quick coalOf mortal fire:Who blows it not, nor doth controlA faint desire,

We’re linked by our common desire to boot Berlusconi out of office.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask...

The desire for sudden change and the thought of their realization by force often appears among men like a disease and gains ground mainly in young brains; only these brains do not think as they...

Her lips found his and a stab of exquisite desire shot through him. This is what he’s been waiting for all this time. Not a stolen embrace. A gift, freely given. One that he would...

Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans.

When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.

Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library. I could already smell the books’ muskiness and in my mind turned over...

He says “You are my property” and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we...

The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are.

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use ‘crowd-sourcing’ to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers.

I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone…but...

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

In the coastal strains of music full of lovers hopes and dreams upon, wearing only warmth, fresh scent of the ocean and delightfully joyous smile…I look deep in your dark gloomy ochi ‘cross the oceans...

Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires,...

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape...

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and courage. The loyalty in this case is of two degrees or commitments: first,...

Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it’s impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and...

It seemed to me that the desire to get married – which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal...

I was still madly in love with her when I left her but the desire had died, and not all the years of sharing and caring and discovering and journeying could keep me from fleeing.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

Have no desire to place before God.

What’, said he, ‘ makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every beast that strays beside me has the same corporeal necessities with myself; he is hungry and crops...

You can want and want and want, but if he doesn’t want you back … you might as well wish the sky were red.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

She was a faithful scripture reader. It (desire to help others) must have come from there. She always wanted to do something for other people, and as time passed, more and more people came to...

Desire links non-being to being.

unnameable,” but there’s a certain kind of balance achieved in certain works of art that feels like satiety, a place to rest, and there are others that are like a tear in the cosmos, that...

to succeed at anything, you must want it very much. Desire must be in evidence in order to attract

90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it’s just driven by our desires and not potentials.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.