Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable--all communication is rhetoric in action.
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.
Success comes to us when we have a burning desire to achieve and we focus our full power on achieving that.
Anna loved and didn’t love sex. Anna needed and didn’t need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted.
Remember that our desires will not arrive by our schedule. If you really want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.
The moment that counts most for me is the one that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in me the desire for a book that perhaps does not exist.
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.
I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me.
We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.
Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.
I had no desire to hear another woman tell my boyfriend how hot he was. If I wanted him to know, I'd damn well tell him myself.
There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect. Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.
When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul… ~ Ripp Collins
Lose myself in your blueberry eyes Magnolia, kiss your mauve lips of grapes, squeeze your fleshy, milky macaroon breasts,smell your opium breath of subconsciousness, labyrinth of desires.
The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation.
Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?” “Yes, please,” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.
A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.
He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
