Quotes About Desires

Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)

I realize now that it was a certain apathy, rather than peace, that turned my acts and my desires to ash.

But all the structures and all the diversity planning put in place to alter those structures, and all the desires of whites to assimilate blacks in their day-to-day lives, come with the continued outrage at rage. All

question by drawing on classical social theory. He understood societies to be established through a form of social contract and to be maintained by individuals' willingness to subordinate personal desires to the regulation of the laws.

People go fishing because of needs. People swim because of wants. People fish and swim even in unpredictable waters for contentment.

The needs of the people may be limited because of wants. To need more is to want less. But to want more is to need more.

All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts tat frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469

your dreams are not your aspirations and your wishes are not your dreams.

If wishes were horses , my mortal father used to say, beggars would ride .

Sometimes life gives us the terrible gift of our own wishes come true.

Hazel kissed boys for all kinds of reasons -- because they were cute, because she was a little drunk, because she was bored, because they let her, because it was fun, because they looked lonely, because it blotted out her fears for a while, because she wasn't sure how many kisses she had left.

Once I started planning purchases, the satisfaction of actually buying what I truly wanted helped tame my desires for the stupid little things I used to waste my money on.

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

God may not give us what we want, but in his loving-kindness, he will give us everything we need.

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.

Don't sublimate your own freedom and desires in order to satisfy the invisible judgments of others against hypothetical wrongdoings.

I try to satisfy the desires that people have to have their books personalized. That's a value, or feature, of bibliophilia that may vanish. How do you get your e-book signed? The idea of people standing in line to get my signature in their book, it's hard to turn them away.

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

In Las Vegas, you confront yourself with your darkest desires, because they're all possible there.