Quotes of: Desirability Keyword

When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse.

Carnivorous Saint Gay Poems, 1941-1976

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Michael Jordan

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

Azar Nafisi

To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

Philip Johnson

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Nora Ephron

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

Walter Annenberg

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Beverly Sills

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

Karl A. Menninger

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Antony Gormley

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Laurance Rockefeller

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

don’t order me around like that unless it involves a safe word and a couple of interesting toys.

Ageless Desires

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his .]

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity.

The Alchemy of Desire

And he claims another victim.” I cracked a grin. “Edwin, you’re turning this infirmary into a speakeasy.

An Airship Named Desire

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

The Alchemist

This is what men risk so much for; this shiver, this acute heat and desire. This is what they think eternity feels like.

Antigoddess

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

The Heroic Enthusiasts - (Gli Eroici Furori) - An Ethical Poem

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Ham on Rye

As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.

His Forbidden Touch