Quotes about Desire

What do you mean—desire, data and doubt?" "Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.

Big breasts in a woman and hard loins in a man (that tightly muscular look to the buttocks)—these were naturally important in sexual matchings. But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing. Eyes were essential. You could drown in the right kind of eyes, he had learned, sink right into them and be unaware of what was being done to you until penis was firmly clasped in vagina. He

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Spontaneous expansion must be free: it cannot be under our control; and consequently it is utterly vain to say, as I constantly hear men say, that we desire to see spontaneous expansion, and yet must maintain our control. If we want to see spontaneous expansion we must establish native Churches free from our control.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?

It made me think of how thin the border was between attractive and not, and yet, if it was there, you didn't want to cross it.