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If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.
- LM Montgomery
but youth yearned to youth.
- LM Montgomery
Its wonderful to have ambition.
- LM Montgomery
What I want is a housekeeper. If I shaved every Sunday and went to church I'd get all the housekeepers I'd want. I'd be respectable then. But what's the use of going to church when it's all settled by predestination? Tell me that, Miss.
- LM Montgomery
What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid. No man had ever desired her.
- LM Montgomery
It's hard enough now, so I won't make it any harder. I want to go out so much—everything seems to be calling to me, 'Anne, Anne, come out to us. Anne, Anne, we want a playmate'—but it's better not. There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?
- LM Montgomery
In order to compete with sin's appeal, holy desire, the longing to live a Christlike life that displays the relational beauty of Christ to others, must be rooted in faith. And that faith exists only when it is lodged in the certainty that soon it will give way to an incomparable experience of joy that will forever destroy the appeal of sin.
- Larry Crabb
A man looks at a "sex goddess" and lusts. A man looks at a feminine woman and worships.
- Larry Crabb
We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.
- Lauraine Snelling
But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.
- Laurence Sterne
The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it
- Laurence Sterne
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
- Laurence Sterne