Desire Quotes - Page 179

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.

Desire is no light thing.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!

I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that.

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi.... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.

Consensus and dialogue have always played a significant role, especially in Danish society. Of course there are basic values that must be respected, but within this framework, we are a liberal and tolerant country where everyone can live as they desire and according to their tradition. That is the Danish way.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."