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When you dress and behave in a way that is designed primarily to arouse sexual desire in men, you are committing pornography with your life.
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
You might have some people that disagree with populism and anti-globalism and so forth, but Donald Trump has no desire to undermine America.
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth.
In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.
I don't have any desire to be in a relationship with anyone else, and I do feel like I'm on the other side of my career of being a Lothario.
I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.
I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.
Alex [Kendrick] and I started out the whole film-making journey as a desire to reach people for Christ and try to impact their lives for him.
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.
It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.
It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?