Quotes About Desire

Let Caesar have the world, if Marcia's mine.

Then she is beautiful beyond the Race of Women; if you won't let her go on with a certain Artifice with her eyes, and the Skill of Beauty, she will arm her self with her real Charms, and strike you with Admiration instead of Desire.

In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

In every sound convert the judgement is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

Let me see you, O Light of my eyes. Come, O Joy of my spirit; let me behold you, O Gladness of my heart. Let me love you, O Life of my soul. Appear unto me, O my great delight, my sweet comfort, O my God, my life, and the whole glory of my soul. Let me find you, O Desire of my heart; let me hold you, O Love of my soul. Let me embrace you, O Heavenly Bridegroom. Let me possess you.

But it seemed to Tristan as though an ardent briar, sharp-thorned but with flower most sweet smelling drave roots into his blood and laced the lovely body of Iseult all round about it and bound it to his own and to his every though and desire.

Apart the lovers could neither live nor die, for it was life and death together..

Noi am pierdut lumea ?i lumea pe noi, nu-i a?a Tristan, iubitule? — Iubito, când te am cu mine, ce s? mai îmi trebuiasc?? Dac? lumea toat? ar fi într-acest loc cu noi, eu nu te-a? vedea decât pe tine.

Nu de Brangien cea credincioas?, ci de ei însu?i au a se teme iubi?ii. Îns? cum s? stea de veghe inimile lor bete de dragoste? Iubirea îi îmbolde?te, a?a cum setea îl repede pe cerb c?tre râu, la ananghie, ori tot a?a precum, dup? o lung? înfometare, ?oimul slobozit se las? pe prad?. Vai! dragostea nu se poate t?nui.

and love, as an act, lacks a verb

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. We are all born despots, from the most absolute monarch in Asia to the infant who smothers a bird with its hand for the pleasure of seeing that there exists in the world a being weaker than itself.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men

I love you and it's getting worse.

It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

What you get, you don't want, and what you want, you don't get. David Irving, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (Focal Point Publications, 2014), Pp. 67

one of the most radical, far-reaching, and challenging statements of the Buddha is his statement that as long as there is attachment to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant, liberation is impossible.

To receive this incredible gift all you have to do is follow four simple steps: 1) desire it; 2) know it; 3) grow in its virtue; 4) live it.

It's time to set our sights on the marketing funnel, aka, AIDA. AIDA stands for Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. (p.3)

It's time to set our sights on the marketing funnel, aka, AIDA. AIDA stands for Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action. (p.3)... There's something inherently out of whack with the traditional marketing funnel and there are better ways to optimize it (p.7).

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.