Crave Quotes - Page 15

• My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

  Kenny Chesney

  Simplicity, Complicated, Sometimes

  "Spiritual side of Kenny Chesney". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I actually love fish and vegetables. I was raised on vegetables! Anything green - spinach, broccoli, brussels sprouts - I crave.

  Eva Longoria

  Vegetables, Green, Spinach

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Book, Quiet Moments, Family And Friends

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• Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long, Independence, Yoke

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Pain, Sorry

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.252, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

  James Mercer

  Intimacy, Social, Humans

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Thinking, Drug

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

  Daley Thompson

  Years, Two, Long

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• The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.

  Carson McCullers

  Pain, Hate, Forever

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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• Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Mean, Unique, Psych

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• Audiences crave something they've never seen before. That's what they want. They want to be dazzled. They want to go in either to have their expectations blown out of the water, or have no expectations and are dazzled by the decisions that we filmmakers made.

  Tom Hanks

  Water, Expectations, Decision

  "Tom Hanks and Halle Berry Talk CLOUD ATLAS, Playing Multiple Roles, Moving Between Directors and Time Periods, Fear of Failure and the Collaborative Process". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 23, 2012.

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• At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

  Herman Melville

  Eating, Banquets, Retiring

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.298

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• Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

  Emma Goldman

  Expression, Broken, Slavery

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• ...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Food, Reading, Mind

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Missing, Desire

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

  Hugh Laurie

  Children, Attention, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Commodity, Vicious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.53

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• Some crave grief like strong drink.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Grief, Addiction

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• People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Leaving, Safe

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.47, Jaico Publishing House

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• Women of the world crave excitement.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  World, Excitement

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• There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

  Philip Sidney

  Self, Looks, Delicacy

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• ... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Prayer, Grief, Tired

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• As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Emotional, Culture, Illness

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