Anna Brackett Quotes
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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The moon belongs to everyone. The best things in life they're free. Stars belong to everyone. They cling there for you and for me.
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Leave off the 'financially'.Let the financial be the result of honest, sincere desire to be and live so that others may know the way also. Good gives the increase. ( Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice )
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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Every moment markedWith apparitions of your soul.I'm ever swiftly movingTrying to escape this desire.
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From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:From some, a dazzling desire.
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I often get questioned about how we came up with the name 'Weebly.' We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up.
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What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.
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The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
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I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.
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I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'My Friend Dahmer' is the one book I'll be most known for, and in a way, that's a drag, as it's nothing like the rest of the work I've done or will do moving forward. But the way I figure, it's better to have a best-known work than not to have one at all.
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Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
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There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
