Best desire & views Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”

Ifs Country Matter Law Desire Choices Views Majority Intention West Iran Monopoly Benign Condescending

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.”

People Play Character Desire Interesting Views Race Issues Right Now Theater Filled Very Interesting Personal Views

Author:Kerry Washington

“Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.”

Desire Views Point Of View Karma Reactions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”

Men Heart Hands Lying Desire Easy Waiting Views Behinds Sick Sight Difficulty Salvation Clouds Possession Accomplishment Trust In God Presence Of God Afar Perplexity

Author:Owen Wilson

“It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.”

Thinking Facts Desire Fall Evil Force Views Quality Situation Sacrifice Spring Ideals Pressure Endure Absence Arise Realistic Disagreeable

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920

“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.”

Feels Should Mean Desire Certain Speak Views Subjects Essentials Embrace Paint Point Of View Revelations Logical Conception Compelled Absolutely Nothing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.”

Men Want Heart Matter Bigs Desire Views Cutting Fans Fame Fortune Core Pursuit Lovely Adam Twelve

Book:How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

Source: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

“I would hope that people might view their fellow beings, all beings, with more empathy, more compassion, with a desire to understand. Even if they can't know why people are the way they are, to understand that they're probably that way for a good reason.”

People Ifs Knows Way Reason Might Desire Views Compassion Empathy Fellows

Author:Peter Hedges

“Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.”

World Way Should Desire Universe Views Pay Accepting Stress Regard Refuse

Author:Srikumar Rao

“[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.”

Should Desire Individual Pleasure Interesting Views Steps Knowing Journey Objects Degrees Appearance Drawing Employed Traveller

Book:Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

“It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.”

Writing Firsts May Desire Views Principles Ought Essentials Authority Customs Dictator Novelty Attainment Endeavour Breaking Rules Beauty Within

Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down the curtains, wash the windows, and rearrange the furniture. Often, too, they expressed their desire to share their view with others, as if it were a non-depletable treasure. I liked the idea that my photographic vantage points were not solely determined by myself. They were predetermined by others, sometimes years earlier, and patiently waited for me to discover them.”

Ifs Years Looks Ideas Sometimes Desire Rooms Views Share Window Let Me Photographer Stranger Determined Treasure Curtains Furniture Gears Cooperatives Puzzled Predetermined Vantage Point

Author:John Pfahl

“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.”

Eye Desire Views Higher Deserve Perfection Faults Appreciation Merit

Author:John Frederick Boyes

“From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .”

Desire Purpose Lost Views Emotion Longing Point Of View Nostalgia Practicals Useless

Book:Us

Source: Us

“To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.”

Ends Death Desire Animal Views Philosopher Petty Mourn Coffins Shrinking Adherence

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.”

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