Quotes About Desire

Blaze yet and I hate waiting.

He pushed back against the little jump that his heart made when he saw her.

staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.

Mommy. Mommy. Mommy, you know how Daffodil has a pet rabbit? Do you think I could have a pet dragon?" "NO, Ivy.

I WON'T get upset!" Cliff shouted. "I want! to SEE! MOMMY KILL GRANDMA!" Peril had to stifle a giggle. "All right, you bloodthirsty little barbarian

He smiled a little sadly. "I wish you could," he said.

She really really REALLY wished she'd brought a book with her.

You're right," she said. "All my life I have desperately wanted an ugly necklace." "Hey," Chameleon protested, as Queen Scarlet gave a shout of laughter. "Especially one that will melt the moment I put it on," Peril said. "Thank you soooooo much! Best dad ever." "This is the kind of parenting fun you've missed out on,

This is going to sound weird, Moon offered, but I kind of want to give you a hug right now.

I've wanted to get my claws on it for years. I assume you read it. What happens next? Say the words 'Wasp dies slowly and horribly' and I'll make you my heir.

But all she wanted was to be with Clay. Near him, around him, breathing the same air and watching the same skies. That wasn't asking too much. And if it meant she wasn't hurting anyone anymore, wasn't that what everyone wanted? Maybe not. Maybe Queen Ruby wanted Peril to be miserable and alone.

Six-Claws suspected that if she ever killed her mother, it wouldn't be for power or a throne; it would be for a pair of diamond earrings. And she wouldn't do it with her claws or her fire — she'd do it by annoying the queen to death.

But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon, and it made him feel hollowed out, like an ice cave.

There was once a big atomic bomb That wanted to be a bullet. His friends all asked why, when he was such a big atomic bomb, he would want to be a tiny bullet. "I miss", he sighed, "the personal touch.

The three poisons are exactly what creates the three realms of samsara. Attachment creates the realms of desire. Aversion creates the realms of form. Indifference creates the realms of formlessness.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

I don't mean to sound sleezy but tease me. I don't want it if it's that easy.

Wanting no other man save the one she could not get, any other man, the nearest at hand, served her purpose.

The most important principle that an executive must embrace is a desire to produce results. As obvious as this sounds, it is not universally practiced by the highest-ranking executives in many companies. Many CEOs put something ahead of results on their list of priorities, and it represents the most dangerous of all the temptations: the desire to protect the status of their careers.

Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

For oh dear, it is a spartan business, this growing old, this cleaving to life, because it demands that you jettison so much that once had been the very zest and pith of life, and why? So that life, pithless, and sans zest , may continue, and the flesh, oh, the flesh, the sins of the flesh - they are as motes in a fading sunbeam. And how I do miss them.

She carried a faint odor of cocktail sausages mingled with sweat. Like a fool I slipped my hand up the inside of her leg. I felt the roughness of her nylons.

Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi.

Men want and desperately need to feel like God's much-loved sons—that He knows what we're going through, that He loves us in spite of our sins, and that He really cares about us personally. Yet most men find it hard to trust God for these things. Would