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Quotes About Desire

We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
~ Adam Gopnik
how often life was about not wanting to be doing what it was you were supposed to be doing.
~ Adam Greenfield
Of the riches Leopold hoped to find in the Congo, the one that gleamed most brightly in his imagination was ivory.
~ Adam Hochschild
It is to do with John Overall's lust. The poor man, who was forty-four in 1604, found it easier, he told his friends, to preach in Latin, which he had studied so hard and so long, and that he found it 'troublesome to speak English as a continued oration'. Despite (or perhaps because of?) that rather unworldly removal from everyday discourse, the dean fell in love with and married the sexiest girl in London. Anne Orwell was irresistible:
~ Adam Nicolson
I was so in love I went into my room and drank half a bottle of Robitussin.
~ Adam Rapp
miss someone is not just word it is more than word it is like when u want ur love to be with u every moment
~ Adam Rex
When we wants to do something but cannot, that is when we think. When our consciousness awakes up and stretches its arms. That is when we imagine, and plan, and dream about the undone thing.
~ Adam Rex
Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?
~ Adam Rex
He was on the verge of obtaining his heart's dream, perhaps; a more alarming prospect than the verge of one's own death. For after all death, whatever else it may be when it comes to us, is not going to be a disappointment.
~ Adam Roberts
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.
~ Adam Smith
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.
~ Adam Smith
It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.
~ Adam Smith
Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.
~ Adam Smith
Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible. It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. If it is not complied with, the consequences are
~ Adam Smith
The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.
~ Adam Smith
El precio real de todas las cosas, lo que cada cosa cuesta realmente a la persona que desea adquirirla, es el esfuezo y la fatiga que su adquisición supone.
~ Adam Smith
Pleasure and pain are the great objects of desire and aversion: but these are distinguished not by reason, but by immediate sense and feeling. If virtue, therefore, be desirable for its own sake, and if vice be, in the same manner, the object of aversion, it cannot be reason which originally distinguishes those different qualities, but immediate sense and feeling.
~ Adam Smith
When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow. This is because there is much more risk. Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex. It would be impolite not to have sex. You have to show that you are serious about each other.
~ Adam Thirlwell
I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.
~ Adam Zagajewski
Sometimes just having someone understand how much you want something makes reality easier to bear. So
~ Adele Faber
Siyasi ve ekonomik özgürlükler azald?kça, cinsel özgürlük, dengelenircesine artma eÄŸilimi gösterir. UyuÅŸturucu, filmler ve radyonun etkisiyle gündüz düÅŸleri kurma özgürlüÄŸüne ek olarak cinsellik, tebaas?n?, yazg?lar? olan köleliÄŸe raz? etmede yard?mc? olur.
~ Adlous Huxley
When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with nothing on.
~ Adrian Mitchell
I wanted to tell her I loved her. I wanted to tell her things would be simple. I wanted to tell her the soft animal of my body wanted only the soft animal of hers. But instead, I let myself succumb to the warmth of her skin and the rhythm of her breath, slipping back into a half-sleep.
~ Adrian Page
I ached and ached, but I didn't know what aching was, so I thought it was love. I wrote her I loved her. I wrote her to love me back. I wrote her I'm sorry. I didn't know what I was sorry for. But I felt it in the swell of my belly, full of apples and regret. Deep and primal. The first feeling I ever learned to name.
~ Adrian Page