Quotes About Desire

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!

No one had ever looked at her just like that before, and it had the effect upon her of making her feel, for perhaps the first time in her life, a strong desire to lay the burden of her cares upon other shoulders. Captain Staple's were certainly broad enough to bear them.

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire - I admit, a natural one for the most part - to exterminate your fellows.

I may have said that I wanted to have an adventure, replied Miss Thane. But I never said that I wanted to be murdered in my bed.

Now, that,' said Sophy, 'I am very glad to know, because if ever I should desire to please you I shall know just how to set about it. I daresay I shan't, but one likes to be prepared for any event, however unlikely.

It was seldom that Mr Standen, a peace-loving young gentleman, was conscious of a wish to come to blows with his fellow-men, but a wistful desire to land his cousin a facer did for an instant flicker in his mind.

He was at the concert last night, and she looked at him as if he were her whole dependence and delight.' 'No, did she? I envy him. Not, of course, that I've the smallest desire that Fanny should bestow such a look upon me, but I wish that you would.

Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title

Well, she had said him nay: that had been of instinct, because she loved him, and it was not in a lover's part to take the selfish course.

She had felt the exquisite happiness of knowing herself to be sought after by the man of her choice; and when he had asked her to waltz with him a second time she had not hesitated.

Because I have not spoken, do not imagine that I have not felt!' said Miss Morville. 'I had no right to speak, but I have very often burned to do so!

us! In fact, I shouldn't relish it above

All she wanted was to be treated to a display of ruthless and possessive manhood.

I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!

It may seem famous to you,' retorted Elinor, with some tartness, 'but I can assure you it does not to me! I have not the smallest desire to be married to your odious cousin!

is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you

God knew she would ask nothing better than to be his wife, but she had sense enough to know that nothing but unhappiness could result from it. If he had loved her, if she had been of his world, approved by his family – but it was useless to speculate on the impossible.

We cling to things, people, beliefs, and behaviors not because we love them, but because we are terrified of losing them.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most human beings live only for the gratification of it. ARISTOTLE

it is the discovery of the depths of weakness, the power of grace, and the price of both. Moreover, what takes place in the desert is not simply difficult travel and adventurous learning; it is repentance and conversion, the transformation of mixed motivations into purified desire, the greening of desert into garden through the living water of grace.

To put it another way, the weakening of monarchy which was essential to the emerging republicanism was driven in no small way by the desire of certain merchants to weaken the monarch's hold over the lushly lucrative African Slave Trade.

Like everything perfect, he set up a ferocious pain inside me -- a flickering, gripping sort of pain, because nothing as marvelous as that is ever within reach, is it? Nothing as beautiful can ever last.

El único problema que tienen los sueños es que no puedes elegir cuáles te tocan.

He said I could make him happy. Then I understood the cause of my sadness. I didn't want to make anybody happy. I wanted someone to make me happy. I knew that there was laughter and I wanted someone who could laugh with me.