Best 5910 quotes in «desire quotes» category

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else.

To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Trusting God means transferring our confidence and hope from ourselves to him, acknowledging that we have no ability in ourselves to live in a way that pleases him. Only he can change us by the power of his Spirit in us. This trust is manifested in a context of obedience in our lives to the biblical mandates God calls us to pursue. Training means acting upon that trust by doing things that help us rely upon God more and live out his desire for us.

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

Trust yourself, your intuition, your desires and your pursuits. Don't question yourself too much. Place one foot ahead of the other and go forward steadily. No one will understand as you do the work, the art, you are making - so no need to look for audience approval or ratings.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This kind of division can be seen in any society, but in Turkey, the problem is that we are losing any kind of connection between groups and any kind of desire to understand one another. The groups hate each other and they are demolishing all bridges between themselves. So society is divided strictly.

Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me.  Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.