Top 1200 Objects Of Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality

I don't have any desire to go back into the studio, and I certainly don't have any desire to go back on the road.

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.

In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. And that didn't used to be the case. Sexuality is a social construction as much as anything else and I think the realities of sexuality don't always fit into the social constructions that we have, and we live in a goal-oriented time - on all fronts.

The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few.

Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

I always to try block everything out, good or bad. I always hope to keep receiving blessings, to have faith, because you know, there's a time to block everything out and just work on your craft, work on everything that you desire to get, desire to want.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.

The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the object.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form of pride was the desire to be better than others. The new, democratic form is the desire not to have anyone better than yourself. It is just as spiritually deadly and does not even carry with it the false pleasure of gloating superiority.

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I want to create a world with objects and surroundings that are human, more romantic, and less sterile.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

Fashion blogs are great, but I also take inspiration from movies, nature, everyday objects.

It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Unknown objects are operating under intelligent control... It is imperative that we learn where UFOs come from and what their purpose is.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.