Desire Quotes - Page 37

• All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ohio, Cities, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.133, Bantam Classics

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• Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Dread, Surround

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• Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Analysis, Representation

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• Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Yearning

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• Rebuttals never alter desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Rebuttal

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• The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

  Mason Cooley

  Fashion, Nature, Changed

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• When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

  Mason Cooley

  Heart, Trying, Happens

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• My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Way, Intention

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• Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Throwing, Interest

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• Habit keeps my life going, with occasional pushes from desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Habit, Occasional

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• Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.

  Mason Cooley

  Sorrow, Example, Soap

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• Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.

  Anne Waldman

  Wise, Jewels, Erotic

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• A hopeful book that moms will relish, Blue Like Playdough is an honest, peel-back-the-covers look at the creative way God shapes us through childhood and parenthood. Tricia Goyer explores her own weaknesses along the journey, revealing her desire to serve the God who forms strength and joy and perseverance within her. A compelling, fresh read.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mom, Perseverance, Book

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• I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.

  Gary Carter

  Love You, Rocks, Giving

  Gary Carter, Phil Pepe (2008). “Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond”, p.214, Triumph Books

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• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  Tony Kushner

  Rocks, Progress, Migration

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.275, Theatre Communications Group

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• The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

  Monty Roberts

  Independence, Mind, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Monty Roberts from Jul 04, 2015

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• The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

  John McGraw

  Boys, Necks, Talent

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• And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Flower, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• The desire to perform impedes conversation.

  Mason Cooley

  Conversation

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• Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

  Mason Cooley

  Endure, Altruism

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• The desire to be significant casts a pall.

  Mason Cooley

  Significant, Significance, Casts

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• Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Smile, Promise, Half

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• You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

  George Pope Morris

  World, Wealthy, Folly

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• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Money, Father

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• The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

  John R. Allen

  Overwhelming Desire, People, Way

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