#desire

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#had #hollywood #i #never #really

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction. ↗

— Janine Turner

#direction #ego #go #his #let go

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved. ↗

— Ralph Alfred Habas

#p #art

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us. ↗

— Donald Miller

#life

The first rule of being a mercenary? Find out what the client wants, then convince him that, a) you can get it for him, and, b) you're the ONLY one who can get it for him. Second rule? Lie. Often. The truth rarely serves you well in this business -Cadeon Woede, mercenary, second in line to the throne of the rage demons, a.k.a. Cade the Kingmaker ↗

— Kresley Cole

#dark-desires-after-dusk #holly #iad #intro-quotes #kresley-cole

I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget. ↗

— Henry Miller

#candlelight #caves #desires #forget #leviathan

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

#awakened #called #charm #christian #constitute

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. ↗

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#could #desire #desired #die #feel

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. ↗

— Tacitus

#desire #enterprise #every #great #noble

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#desires #especially #female #had #her