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Quotes About Desire

In the face of her beauty My rhythm shudders And I am no longer a poet But just another woman in love.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.
~ Roald Dahl
We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.
~ Roald Dahl
Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.
~ Roald Dahl
We've got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You're getting spoiled, my girl!
~ Roald Dahl
It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.
~ Roald Dahl
I think the reason I do not want to die is because of the things I hope will happen. Yes, that's right. I'm sure that's right. Point a revolver at a tramp, at a wet shivering tramp on the side of the road and say, I'm going to shoot you, and he will cry, Don't shoot. Please don't shoot. The tramp clings to life because of the things he hopes will happen.
~ Roald Dahl
Twice a day, on his way to and from school, little Charlie Bucket had to walk right past the gates of the factory. And every time he went by, he would begin to walk very, very slowly, and he would hold his nose high in the air and take long deep sniffs of the gorgeous chocolatey smell all around him. Oh
~ Roald Dahl
I IS ABLE TO MAKE THE ELEKTRIK LITES GO ON AND OFF JUST BY WISHING IT.
~ Roald Dahl
And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
~ Roald Dahl
How long could we allow this beast To gorge and guzzle, feed and feast On everything he wanted to? Great Scott! It simply wouldn't do! However long this pig might live, We're positive he'd never give Even the smallest bit of fun Or happiness to anyone.
~ Roald Dahl
A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.
~ Roald Dahl
because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.
~ Roald Dahl
he LOVED THAT SMELL! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!
~ Roald Dahl
sólo tengo dos perros, cuatro gatos, seis conejos, dos periquitos, tres canarios, un loro verde, una tortuga, una pecera llena de peces, una jaula de ratones blancos y un estúpido hámster. ¡Yo quiero una ardilla!
~ Roald Dahl
Once again, God has a purpose. A desire. A goal. And God never stops pursuing it. Jesus tells a series of parables in Luke 15 about a woman who loses a coin, a shepherd who loses a sheep, and a father who loses a son. The stories aren't ultimately about things and people being lost; the stories are about things and people being found. The God that Jesus teaches us about doesn't give up until everything that was lost is found. This God simply doesn't give up. Ever.
~ Rob Bell
God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2). So does God get what God wants?
~ Rob Bell
No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events and places and memories and desire and love that is your life hasn't ever existed in the history of the Universe. Welcome to a truly unique phenomenon. Welcome to your life. I want you to be here. Welcome to here.
~ Rob Bell
The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17
~ Rob Bell
Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was.
~ Rob Bell
The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was Gods desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.
~ Rob Bell
It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.
~ Rob Bell
The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.
~ Rob Bell
There was a giant paradox there, hiding in that love. She didn't make any demands, but what that did was make me want to be a better person. She loved me exactly as I was, but what that produced in me was a tremendous desire to live up to that love.
~ Rob Bell