Quotes About Desire

wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain.

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thinf at once, I would do nothing forever.

But as if I'd told myself at the same time as him, I realized that was exactly what I was after. I wanted Sarkan. I wanted him to look up from among his heaped books and snap at me at the disorder I'd created. I wanted to know what he was doing, if the Wood had struck back. I wanted him to tell me how I could persuade the king to let Kasia go.

No one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

I wanted and didn't want his help. I wanted to stay angry at him a while longer, but I wanted the connection more; I wanted to touch him, wanted the brilliant crisp bite of his magic in my hands. I kept my head down and kept working.

Work on what you love, your needs will be met.   No

The minute she heard him, she wished they could talk forever.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

Ads do not sell sex—that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.

When a woman looks at a man, she can physically dislike the idea of his height, his coloring, his shape. But after she has liked him and loved him, she would not want him to look any other way: For many women, the body appears to grow beautiful and erotic as they grow to like the person in it. The actual body, the smell, the feel, the voice and movement, becomes charged with heat through the desirable person who animates it.

If a woman's sexual sense of self has centered on pain as far back as the record goes, who is she without it? If suffering is beauty and beauty is love, she cannot be sure she will be loved if she does not suffer. It is hard, because of such conditioning, to envisage a female body free of pain and still desirable.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys [...]

The inversion of female sexuality keeps women from being in control of their own sexual experience. One trouble with soft-core sexual imagery aimed at young men is that the women photographed are not actually responding sexually to anything: young men grow up trained to eroticize images that teach them nothing about female desire. Nor are young women taught to eroticize female desire. Both men and women, then, tend to eroticize only the woman's body and the man's desire.

The last thing the consumer index wants men women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The 1.5$ trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex—that would be counterproductive, [...] What they sell is sexual discontent.

sexual response is connected to and in turn generates a larger sense of pleasure, meaning, and interest in the world

Great Minds Quotes ?@GreatestQuotes The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.

Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted.