Quotes About Desire

When I understood praise as loving appreciation and warm and human acknowledgment of God, I found it inviting. I found that I wanted to praise God.

I made it worse. I lay there for months and months, obsessing over all the places I'd never go, and I gradually realized that many of the ones I most wanted to see were places I'd never heard of. That was when I began seeing my countries." "How

Therefore the remedy opposes desire, for it is cured not by satisfying it but by extinguishing it.

People ask me how many times I've taken LSD--and I don't count. But it's the same thing when they ask me how many times I've made love. The answer is, not enough.

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

We all want the wrong things, but God is in the business of changing what we want.

What we are getting at is that, because you are a human being, there is always something you are living for; always some desire, goal, treasure, purpose, value, or craving that controls your heart.

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

Our purpose is to get what we want, but God's purpose is to give us what we really need.

We are worshipers who enter into relationship with the person or thing we think will give us life.

In the end, though, freedom depends upon citizens who are able to make a distinction between what is true and what they want to hear. Authoritarianism arrives not because people say that they want it, but because they lose the ability to distinguish between facts and desires.

You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.

She [Cressida] knows it is men's sexual desire that makes women "angels" before they have been able to possess them; once possessed, women are "things" [Troilus and Cressida I.2, 225-28, 233-34].

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

Common quicksilver exhibits a great 'desire' to combine with related metals. With quicksilver, metal workers can make gold and silver liquid. Quicksilver amalgam has been used since early times to gild metal objects. After application of the liquid amalgam, the quicksilver can be eliminated by fire, and the gold remains. Gold can also be extracted from other minerals by washing with quicksilver.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Pratico molto il sesso orale. nel senso che ne parlo tanto e non combino mai niente.

Folco, diese Welt ist ein Wunder! Sie ist ein unglaubliches Wunder! Und wenn du es schaffst, dich als Teil dieses Wunders zu fühlen - nicht das Du mit den zwei Augen und den zwei Füssen, sonderd das DU, Dein innerstes Wesen - was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Hm? Was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Ein neues Auto?

He was formed for the ruin of our sex.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

I had made the fatal mistake of believing in his touch, as if the intelligence of his hands, our orgasms, the way he penetrated me, had affected him as much as it had affected me. Perhaps this is the catch cry of the egoist: I love, therefore I must be loved. Perhaps it is the Achilles' heel of my gender.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

I vow that nothing- no law, no army, no faith- will keep me from your side.