Quotes by Desire From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Bayard Taylor fire desire wind There may come a day Bayard Taylor desire success art I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. Bayazid Bastami ignorant choices desire All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. Bayazid Bastami veils silence desire Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me Bayazid Bastami moses desire The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds. Beatrice M. Hinkle creating mind desire I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever. Beatrix Potter stronger poor desire Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on. Beau Bridges pressing-on movement desire Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile. Becca Fitzpatrick breathing desire mean Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it. Bell Hooks empowering what-matters desire Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries. Bell Hooks language desire sex How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! Belva Plain caught desire bird The illness has only made certain ambivalences I'd always been conscious of that much more acute. Life versus Death, the absolute randomness of one's position, privilege, and place, the lot one draws, and so on. It has made previously suspicious-seeming clichés seem more tolerable. Love may not be all you need, but it is certainly a necessity. My desire to survive has been exponentially magnified by the fact that there is someone intimately tangled up in me who would be left alone with the world. Ben Doller tangled desire world In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. Ben Hecht deceit desire lying The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time. Ben Shahn united-states desire pregnancy I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way. Ben Stiller burning taken desire Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it. Ben Stiller genius overcoming desire I've been out to LA a couple of times but, over there, the Grenouille in me always comes to the surface. I feel completely terrified, totally flummoxed, like I don't understand what the hell is going on. I've no desire at all to go back there. Ben Whishaw hell couple desire Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more. Benjamin Blech greed desire thinking In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Benjamin Disraeli cities desire men «1617181920212223242526»