Quotes About Desire

It represented a world I didn't know, the opposite of where I was—and I hated where I was. I hated the poverty, the cigarette smoke, the drug use, the embarrassment, the loneliness. And Diana Ross was promising me that there was a world that wasn't stained with sadness and resignation. Somewhere there was a world that was sensual and robotic and hypnotic. And clean.

Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo.

Ya comprobó que las palabras de Manuelita Sáenz a Simón Bolívar no aplican a su propia vida: «Bien sabe usted que ninguna otra mujer que usted haya conocido podrá deleitarlo con el fervor y la pasión que me unen a su persona».

But the sheep have not been stolen. The sheep aren't sheep anymore: they are consumers, and they have found a more attractive product in the market for salvation.

la importancia cada vez mayor de la ambición como motor de nuestras acciones y conductas

Donde encontré un ser vivo, allí hallé la voluntad de poder; e incluso en la voluntad del siervo hallé la voluntad de ser amo».21

The heart can do anything.

La curiosité naît de la jalousie

si vous m'aimez, monsieur, vous devez vouloir tout ce que je veux.

TARTUFFE. Love for the beauty of eternal things Cannot destroy our love for earthly beauty;

Si c'est votre façon d'aimer, je vous prie de me haïr.

ARNOLPHE. WAS SHE sad after I went away? Georgette. Sad? No. Arnolphe. No? Georgette. Yes, yes. Arnolphe. Why, then? Georgette. May I die on the spot, but she expected to see you return every minute; and we never heard a horse, an ass, or a mule pass by without her thinking it was you.

Womankind is, in fact, the soup of man, And when a man perceives that others wish To dip their dirty fingers into his dish, His temper flares, and bursts into a flame.

But when a girl has set one's heart on fire, What won't one do to gain the heart's desire

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie.

For a woman, there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

I wondered what that would feel like. What would it be like to have someone want me that much that he…just grabbed me and held on as hard as he could.

Truthfully, he would break every rule he had, every promise he'd ever made, and go to all the trouble in the world for this girl and she had no idea. None.

You're wild now, too. And brave. What else do you want to be?" "I want to be with you." The words slipped out before I could stop them and I heard him suck in a sharp breath. The brittle silence told me I'd done something I couldn't ever undo. I'd changed everything.

It's a seduction, Annie. It's about want. Not need." "You've already seduced me," she whispered. "All I want is you.

She was saying words she didn't totally believe yet. And maybe I was, too. But I wanted them to be true. For the first and only time in my life, I wanted to belong to someone and have that person belong to me.