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Quotes About Desire

Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.
~ Frank Herbert
What's your game?" "I modify the human desire for war." "People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
And she had sung the walking song lovers shared on the sand, its rhythm like the drag of the dunes against the feet: "Tell me of thine eyes And I will tell thee of thy heart. Tell me of thy feet And I will tell thee of thy hands. Tell me of thy sleeping And I will tell thee of thy waking. Tell me of thy desires And I will tell thee of thy need.
~ Frank Herbert
I had no thoughts in my head. There were thoughts only in my heart and my belly and my loins.
~ Frank Herbert
Recherchez la liberté et devenez esclave de vos désirs. Recherchez la discipline et trouvez votre liberté.
~ Frank Herbert
Big breasts in a woman and hard loins in a man (that tightly muscular look to the buttocks)—these were naturally important in sexual matchings. But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing. Eyes were essential. You could drown in the right kind of eyes, he had learned, sink right into them and be unaware of what was being done to you until penis was firmly clasped in vagina. He
~ Frank Herbert
All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats.
~ Frank Herbert
Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.
~ Frank Herbert
spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —
~ Frank Herbert
All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenaline addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats.
~ Frank Herbert
Is Moneo your friend, too?" "We are friends of the stomach. We both like yogurt.
~ Frank Herbert
People fear me. I never wanted to be feared. I don't want to be a part of history, I just want to be loved... and to love.
~ Frank Herbert
Si los deseos fueran peces todos arrojaríamos nuestras redes.
~ Frank Herbert
With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler. A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it.
~ Frank McCourt
I was barely seventeen. I was ignorant, missus. We grew up ignorant in Limerick...we're mothers before we're women. And there's nothing here but rain and oul' biddies saying the rosaries. I'd give me teeth to get out, go to America or even England itself.
~ Frank McCourt
I was barely seventeen. I was ignorant, missus. We grew up ignorant in Limerick...we're mothers before we're women. And there's nothing here but rain and oul' biddies saying the rosary. I'd give me teeth to get out, go to America or even England itself.
~ Frank McCourt
It belonged to the changeless order of things---the man desiring the woman only for what she withholds; the woman worshipping the man for that which she yields up to him. With each concession gained the man?s desire cools; with every surrender made the woman?s adoration increases...
~ Frank Norris
A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.
~ Frank O'Connor
I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
~ Frank O'Hara
It's a bright summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.
~ Frank O'Hara
And when you are hungry, effective beats sport all hollow.
~ Frank Roderus
because none of you know what you want follow me because I'm not going anywhere I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in look at my legs I am the Nijinsky of dreams
~ Frank Stanford
I saw the black seam of your stocking Running down the side of the mountain like a creek I put the whiskey down and listened from "Blue Yodel of the Desperado
~ Frank Stanford
Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.
~ Frank Tallis