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Desiring Quotes (page 26)

What I'm thinking is: here I am, lying under a haystack ... The tiny little place I occupy is so small in relation to the rest of space where I am not and where it's none of my business; and the amount of time which I'll succeed in living is so insignificant by comparison with the eternity where I haven't been and never will be ... And yet in this atom, in this mathematical point, the blood circulates, the brain works and even desires something as well .. What sheer ugliness! What sheer... Ivan Turgenev
His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Joan D. Vinge quote: "There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your..."
There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it. Joan D. Vinge
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as..."
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons. J. M. Barrie
Napolean Hill quote: "Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of..."
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. Napolean Hill
Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires. There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaidpoison every next moment. I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.--Mon Semblable Stephen Dunn
Alison Bechdel quote: "If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind..."
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. Alison Bechdel
Khalil Gibran quote: "Life is not only merriment, It is desire and determination."
Life is not only merriment, It is desire and determination. Khalil Gibran
If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude. Georgette Heyer
Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence. Maria Montessori
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I... Anais Nin
When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they liveeach moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, theydo not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real alwaysfinds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, theydo not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single... Paulo Coelho
William Shakespeare quote: "Thou art a votary to fond desire"
Thou art a votary to fond desire William Shakespeare

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