Uncategorized Quotes - Page 156

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

Her beauty was enough to get her into most any situation she desired and her tongue—sharp and venomous—was enough to get her out again.

Thomm Quackenbush

You're going to want me, Simon, as much as I want you...and before you can have me...you're going to have to deserve me.

If you want to be mine;be of the divine,be of yourself.

SIDhartha

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

Shannon A. Thompson

Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour and makes it worthwhile. Desire is the original anarchist and undercover agent – no wonder people want it arrested and kept in a safe place. And just when we think we've got desire under control it lets us down or fills us with hope. Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all.

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd

Jon R. Michaelsen

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

Lila Abu-Lughod

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

Be careful what you wish for. Especially out loud.

As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

She leans over the desk to write and even though I feel bad for doing it, I watch her body as she does. Her shirt lifts just a little as she’s bending over and whether she’s aware of it or not, her lower back is exposed. I’ve spent the last eight years ignoring this girl, but one small view of her back and it’s putting my body into overdrive. I’ve never wanted to kiss someone there so much in my life.

Melyssa Winchester

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

She and I will become one someday soon. So much so, that none will know where I begin and she ends. This I know…

A.R. Von

The increased desire to please God and seek HIS approval will decrease the desire to seek approval from man.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

When I was 6 I wanted to be a nurse. When I was 14 I wanted to be a spy or a lion tamer. When I was 16 I wanted too be a highwire walker or an acrobat. Or maybe a clown with a white face. Then I gave up wanting to be anything other than what I am and what I am is a woman with a woman's needs and a woman's desires.

Let a sweltering heat... love... rose up relentlessly.

You have everything you need inside of you to create anything in your life that you desire.

God's greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

4.45 CREATIONMan’s creation – with use clearly decreases,It but fulfillment of want and desire please;God’s Creation – but with use increases,It the fulfillment of love, truly never ceases.[271]t- 4

4.04 APOLOGYA second insult be just a stiff apology,As the first be when hurt was the party;Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,But healing from hurt - the desire only.[38]t- 4

Desire, Desire, Desire!!!Desire to love.Desire to seek.Desire to ask.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Thou shalt not search with desire; because the real treasures, they, will remain forever hidden from you.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

It had been so long since she had felt the touch of a man. Too long. She had almost forgotten that ripe, heavy throb of attraction and desire that could instantly drug her body and mind more thoroughly than any hard liquor.

If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.

Katherine McIntyre

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

Tim Fargo

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

IF a woman has manifested her love or desire, either by signs or by motions of the body,and is afterwards rarely or never seen anywhere, or if a woman is met for the first time,the man should get a go-between to approach her.

Mallanaga Vātsyāyana

Desire is the foundation of our greatness. Without it, we are stranded; we cannot go anywhere. You won't get, what you don't eagerly desire.

Assegid Habtewold

She was a truth that had filled his every moment.

Michelle M. Pillow

It isn'y explanations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

The outcome should not drive the action. Your desire to achieve the outcome should. The outcome depends on many variables, most of which are not in your control. Do what you need to do because you want to do it, not because of whether or not the outcome will be achieved.

I had a dream that Zac Effron showed up at my door shirtless with a bouquet of flowers..yep, I’m still waiting on that one to come true.

You are not in Disneyland,” he said. “The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here.

Walter Dean Myers

Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God’s plans.

Elizabeth George

When we say forever, we are talking about a desire.

The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what; the desire to...

Assegid Habtewold

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Ayn Rand

Experiencing life with your whole heart will not only bring more of what you desire but often it will surpass what you could have imagined!

You fill a hungry place shaped like your darkness.

stephanie roberts

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

Ella Leya

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose you is the great desire.Now all flesh bares itself to you.On pious images pale cheeksblush with a strange fire.Your senses uncoil like snakesawakened by the beat of the tambourine.Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.But now, like a whispering in dark streets,rumors of God run through your dark blood.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Because Honestlyis it trashyto want something so badyou go for iteven if it might kill you?My opinion?It's judging that's trashy.Bad enough the world looks at usunder a (distorted) microscope.Like the good Lord says,we don't need tojudge each other.

Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

She had a smile that could put a froth on a cup of coffee, and she knew it.

Christopher Fowler

A perfect night... a perfect forever

Mary E. Pearson

Desire, Desire, Desire!Desire to love,Desire to live,Desire to learn,Desire to dream,Desire to give,Desire to forgive,Desire to grow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

Sandra Lee Dennis

We all are bundles of electric waves or streams of particles – proton, neutron, and electrons. If a piece of metal can be transformed into electric or magnetic waves, so can a string of sound, a thought, and a desire.

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