Quotes About Desire

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Âdem, yaln?zca bir insand?. Bu her ÅŸeyi aç?kl?yor. Elmay?, yemek için deÄŸil, yasak olduÄŸu için istemiÅŸti. As?l hata, y?lan? yasaklamam?? olmakt?. Çünkü o zaman onu yemek isteyecekti.

Then she told me all about the bad place, and said I wished I was there. She got mad, then, but I didn't mean no harm. All I wanted was to go somewheres, all I wanted was a change, I warn't particular

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

If there is no smoking in heaven, I'm not interested

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you want.

Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

True love is the only heart disease that is best left to run on--the only affection of the heart for which there is no help, and none desired.

But hunger is pride's master...

Tom found himself writing BECKY in the sand with his big toe; he scratched it out, and was angry with himself for his weakness. But he wrote it again, nevertheless; he could not help it.

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race -- and of ours -- sexual intercourse! It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

More men go to church than want to.

Descoperise f?r? s? ÅŸtie c? pentru a face pe om s? doreasc? un lucru, fie c?-i b?rbat în toat? firea, fie c?-i b?ieÅ£aÅŸ, trebuie s?-i înf??iÅŸezi acel lucru ca greu de obÅ£inut.

I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.

to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. We never cared any thing about ice-cream at home, but we look upon it with a sort of idolatry now that it is so scarce in these red-hot climates of the East.

Then she told me all about the bad place, and I said I wished I was there.

The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.

What I suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher