Desire Quotes - Page 25

• America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

  Karen Russell

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dresses

  "How I get dressed". Interview with Marion Hume, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

  Sarah MacLean

  Heart, Romance, Taught

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• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Islam, Ancient, Versions

  "'I Watched a Man Stabbed in a London Street - and Felt Nothing'". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2013.

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• Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

  Thomas Pogge

  Ought, Institute, Participants

  "Thomas Pogge and global fairness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. March 18, 2012.

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• Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

  Nellie McKay

  Needs, Communicate, Subconscious

  "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

  Confucius

  Men, Doe, Superior Man

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

  Patrick Chan

  Care, Wells, My Own

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• Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

  Epictetus

  Body, Aversion, Action

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Children, Hate, Heart

  "Paris Talks". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá ("The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace," October 21, 1911), reference.bahai.org. 1912.

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• As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, Our Words, Patient

  "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

  Rachel Cusk

  Believe, Ocean, Moving

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House

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• Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.

  David Byrne

  Character, Unique, Cities

  "New York State of Mind" by David Byrne, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Suffering, Fool, Poor

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.87, Weiser Books

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• Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.

  Vladimir Jankelevitch

  Love Is, Mystery, Knows

  Vladimir Jankélévitch (2005). “Forgiveness”, p.87, University of Chicago Press

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• It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.

  Tyrone Willingham

  Football, Successful, Loss

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• Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Expression, Joy, Needs

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• To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Names, Mind, Purpose

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• To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Light, Spirit, Quiet

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  Laurance Rockefeller

  Appreciation, Art, Understanding

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• Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Modern Life, Want

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• A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Thinking, Two

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.759, Graphic Arts Books

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• " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Hypocrite

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

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• I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Wise, Believe, Sheep

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• Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry, Resemblance

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