Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving, in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no ultimate victor. But coevolution ceases in an orchard of grafted trees, since they are genetically identical from generation to gener...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Do what they will, then, we remain conscious of a desire which no natural happiness will satisfy. But is there any reason to suppose that reality offers any satisfaction to it? "Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread." But I think it may ...

Readings for Meditation and Reflection

For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil,...

The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. ...

Nikola Tesla

How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.

The Cookbook Collector

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

The Captive & The Fugitive

I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirees or drowning in tea with morning callers.

Courting Miss Lancaster

Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to “please” anyone but themselves

The Cat Owner's Manual

He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion.

The Coming Storm

Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Our stories become self-fulfilling; we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

The Da Vinci Code

The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

Desirable Daughters

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Dynamics of Faith

She gave herself up to the waves of the storm. If they drowned, it would be together, a shattered vessel on the sea, a collision of longing and desire.

Darkness Falls

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure". "Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid.

Demon

Desires intellectual, social etc., but they all be, Soul‟s longing through mind and senses activity. - 40 -

Devi Mahatmayam in English Rhyme

Problem was, he couldn’t masturbate his sexual desires away because he’d fry off his cock." Hector

Dark Taste of Rapture

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

The Distant Shore