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Quotes About Desires

It is not the destiny of Black america to repeat white america's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life. If Black men continue to define femininity instead of their own desires, and to do it in archaic european terms, they restrict our access to each other's energies. Freedom and future for Blacks does not mean absorbing the dominant white male disease of sexism.
~ Audre Lorde
People in markets find a way of getting down to the essentials of I have, you want; you have, I want.
~ Audre Lorde
It is not the destiny of Black america to repeat white america's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life. If Black men continue to define "femininity" instead of their own desires, and to do it in archaic european terms, they restrict our access to each other's energies
~ Audre Lorde
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
~ Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires.
~ Ayn Rand
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.
~ Ayn Rand
The love of the Goddess is unconditional. She does not ask for sacrifice—whether human or animal—nor does She want us to sacrifice our normal human needs and desires. Witchcraft is a religion of self-celebration, not self-abnegation.
~ Starhawk
In economia bisogna essere furbi e capire quali siano i desideri degli altri, ma soprattutto insegnare agli altri che desideri devono avere.
~ Stefano Benni
It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible.
~ Stephen Crane
suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.
~ Stephen Fry
I suggested that a life without sex and without the presence of a partner offered numerous benefits. The celibate life allowed productivity, independence and ease free from the pressures of placating and accommodating the will and desires of another: released from the degrading imperatives of erotic congress, a new and better kind of life could be lived. Sex was an overrated bore. 'Besides,' I confessed as I ended the article, 'I'm scared that I may not be very good at it.
~ Stephen Fry
there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.
~ Stephen Hawking
It is shallow desires which make a young man bold
~ strong desires confound him.
Sometimes the best things for us aren't necessarily the things we want.
~ Sara Farizan
Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you.
~ Fumio Obata, Just So Happens
I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.
~ Suman Pokhrel
I shall not set my desires on things of the world.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
God is in the business of shattering our dreams...God wants to shatter every dream we have that is not of Him. God wants us to have the very best, and the very best happens to be Himself.
~ Bob Sjogren and Gerald Robison
For a Comfortable Journey of Life, Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.
~ Ednan Ali
The things that we love tell us what we are.
~ Thomas Aquinas
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
~ Candace Bushnell
I love long walks on the beach, big dicks, and fried chicken.
~ Jujubee
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
~ Monica Bellucci