Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing..
NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into s….
The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is..
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects..
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple..
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite..
Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you..
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on ou….
Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most cert….
If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to d….
Some women attract desire. Others do not..
Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day will help reinforce your desir….
Never cut loose from your longings..
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passion….
As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscienc….
The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires..
She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair..
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems..
Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other..
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, ….
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees….