#desires

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#rules #slow-thinking #acting

Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#loneliness #love #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#desires #feet #like #off #our

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#born #consciousness #desired #desires #dreams

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ↗

— Charles Bent

#desires #god #man #means #much

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#feel #feelings #fellow #his #how

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#criminals #desires #disastrous #driven #end

Ah, and then her beautiful face…actually, the level and angle that she was holding the umbrella, the whole time as she passed within Suresh’s view, only allowed him to see the bottom of her chin at most. Still, with a body as beautiful as hers, Suresh was quite certain that her face would be nothing less than positively stunning! ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#desires #romance #romantic-suspense #beauty