Quotes About Desires

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

ta v?n làm th?? Có bao gi? chúng ta ??t câu h?i, t?i sao chúng ta l?i làm th? không? Lòng ta còn ham ti?n b?c, danh v?ng, ??a v?, s?c kh?e, và ch? c?u bình an cho chính mình thôi, nên ch?ng bao gi? th?a mãn.

When people are ill, they have such strange fancies! They are like children, they do not know what they want.

Passions are as mean as they are cruel.

Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'

Susan B. Anthony. "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do," she once said, "because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us -- the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

And our dreams are who we are.

As most of the unhappiness in the world arises rather from disappointed desires than from positive evil, it is of the utmost consequence to attain just notions of the laws and order of the universe, that we may not vex ourselves with fruitless wishes, or give way to groundless and unreasonable discontent.

In these unquenchable desires we feel The thirsty future's dominant appeal; And through the fire of our impassioned dust A thousand ancestors their loves reveal.

Those people who think of their departed friends as being all-wise, how disappointed they would be if they could know that the life on this side is only an extension of the life on earth! If the thoughts and desires there have been only for material pleasures, the thoughts and desires here are likely to be the same.

The Conservative believes that man is, in part, an economic, an animal creature; but that he is also a spiritual creature with spiritual needs and spiritual desires. What is more, these needs and desires reflect the superior side of man's nature, and thus take precedence over his economic wants.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model--whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

It's very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.

I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

There are very few parts, and very few scripts, that acknowledge women as sexual beings, or simply just recognise that women have desires.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.

He is against sin: inso far as, and while, they and sin are one, he is against them--against their desires, their aims, their fears, and their hopes; and thus he is altogether and always for them.