Top 1200 Objects Of Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile.

I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

I wanted to hear sounds of everyday objects - even musical instruments - as things.

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.

As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

...the Lord of the Universe carries the entire burden of this world. You imagine you do. You can hand all your burdens over to His care. Whatever you have to do, you will be made an instrument for doing it at the right time. Do not think you cannot do it unless you have the desire to do it. Desire does not give you the strength for doing. The entire strength is the Lord's.

The desire to please your boss is a good thing, but it could mutate into a weakness. One of the first challenges of getting promoted into management is negotiating the tension between the desire to please the person who promoted you while still remaining true to yourself. The tension is normal, and the fact that you feel it is probably indicative of why you were promoted.

Women are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time

There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.

I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

I don't see men or women as my sexual objects. I keep myself out of that equation.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.