Top 1200 Objects Of Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.

Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can escape.

When you are focused upon something that you desire, then through the Law of Attraction, more and more thoughts about what you desire will be drawn, and you will feel greater positive emotion. You can speed the creation of something simply by giving it more attention—the Law of Attraction takes care of the rest and brings to you the essence of the subject of your thought.

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.

I never had that desire to start or join a rock band. Nor did I ever have a desire to see my idols in concert. I would have loved to see The Cure. I didn't understand the whole concept of: you love music, you buy the album, and then you go see them in concert. It felt like something that was so untouchable that I didn't even attempt to try and bring it to any place other than my headphones.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

For escape, I love popcorn thrillers that you can read in a weekend, like 'Sharp Objects' and 'The Woman in Cabin 10.'

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which is tighter than the prison of hawa (desire) and there is no bond/fetter more strong than the bond of desire. How, then, will a heart which is captivated, imprisoned and fettered travel unto Allah and the Home of the Hereafter?

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don't like women being looked at as mere objects of sex.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have missed their life - they are projecting their desires in heaven. In heaven there are rivers of wine... who are these people who are imagining rivers of wine? They must have missed here. And there are wish-fulfilling trees. You sit underneath them, desire, and the moment you desire, immediately it is fulfilled.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.