Quotes About Desire

majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority: the people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this, as against any other abuse of power.

else desirable, he confounded all disinterested feelings which he found in himself, with the desire of ggeneralg happiness: just as some religious writers, who loved virtue for its own sake as much perhaps as men could do, habitually confounded their love of virtue with their fear of hell.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetiteMakes eating a delight.

Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move,This cannot take her.If of herself she will not love,Nothing can make her.The devil take her!

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

Restless, he begs for storms, As though in storms there is rest.

Repeating instructions is a practical technique, but everything Michelangelo writes has this quality of pouring out his desires in the order they occur to him.

Despite their age difference-Pope Julius was sixty; Michelangelo, thirty-and their similarily contentious temperaments, neither man could believe that anything he passionately wanted would be denied him.

Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in your families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it [does not] dwell anywhere else

Waiting your turn is often the worst way to get what you want.

Therefore, we certainly do good works, but not so that we merit anything by them. For what could we merit? But rather we are more and more bound to God for good works (if we do them), not God to us. For God is He Who "works in us both so that we desire, and also so that we work, according to His gratuitous goodness.

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Are you the thing you want most, or its' opposite? If I want nothing more than water, is it because I am water or because I have none?

It's because I love you that I don't want you to go." "My God, Bill, I don't want that kind of love. 'I love you, so hold still while I tie you down.' What hurts is that it's you doing it. If you can't have me as my own woman, able to make my own decisions and take care of myself, you can't have me at all.

Being the bone of contention between her two lovers was not to her taste.

The thirst to do something outrageous and heroic had never left her.

I've been trying to kill that name most of my adult life, but I always weaken when somebody whispers it in my ear.

Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.

The English language was a delight to them, so illogical and fertile and well-suited to their natural desire to confuse, obfuscate, and generally side-step clear meaning whenever possible.

Bill's tongue had started at Cirocco's toes and was now exploring her left ear. She liked that. It had been a memorable journey.

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so.