I cannot talk of the power of want, of how much desire can do. I don’t think it can be measured. I think want is forgotten too quickly or dismissed as being worth far less...

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the...

One possible explanation is that the attacks are not prompted by a desire to bring about an immediate withdrawal, but to put pressure on the U.S. so that it will eventually leave.

Why… is human desire so unsatisfying?

The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.

Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it’s like a bullet that ricochets off time’s walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

We believe we have a set of principles that ensure we comply with all of our legal obligations in China and other countries and ensure we are consistent with the broad principles that the Internet...

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn’t deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn’t desire in all.

Trapped in infernoIt blazed brighter than the sunHis desire for her

…then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Let me say that whoever invented wanting, whoever came up with desire, whoever had the first one and let us all catch it like a hot-pink plague, I would like to tell that person that...

To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God’s passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make...

To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.

Sex, once a law as undisputed as gravity, has been disproved. The equation is erased, the blackboard broken

Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a ‘God’ is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.

We have no illusions about China’s desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the...

The stranger was as white as a gallon of milk, and I felt the desire to pour his soul into my coffee. I’d drink him like the ghost of my grandpa.

Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do...

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason’s most important occupations? Still more, how little...

To live in the shadow of another person…to desire to be adored as that person is….is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.

True passion motivates the life forces and brings forth all things good…. desire is the poor cousin to passion, ever hungry and with no real result.

I am the melted cheese of desire. Please, feel free to double dip.

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art–Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth’s...

Thou shalt not search with desire; because the real treasures, they, will remain forever hidden from you.

They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

4.04 APOLOGYA second insult be just a stiff apology,As the first be when hurt was the party;Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,But healing from hurt – the desire only.[38]- 4

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

I feel alive when you kiss me.

Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather...

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied

Desire, desire which knows, we draw no advantage from our shadows except from some veritable sovereignties accompanied by invisible flames, invisible chains, which, coming to light, step after step, cause us to shine.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out...

Want is nothing compared with the level of desire I have. With the desperation I feel. With the way I long for you.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

The ability to engage the reader, to stir feelings deep within their being, is the ultimate goal of erotic fiction. When the reader takes the place of the characters in my story, I have succeeded

Peace, People clamor I want Peace , But they do not let go of I(ego) or Want(desire). I and Want deal with the outside world. Peace is inside, pieces are outside.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

That desire to win the game was not there,

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, and mirror what you admire.