Caryll Houselander Quotes

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Caryll Houselander

• Desire
• Break
• Lovers
• Mediocrity
• Complacency

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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Heart
  • You
  • Break

• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Desire
  • Myself
  • Find

• Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Desire
  • Fame
  • Away

• My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Desire

• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Safety

• People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.

  

  Omar Sy
  • People
  • Black
  • Desire

• When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Desire
  • Do The Right Thing

• Women are amazing lovers.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Lovers

• 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.'

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Me
  • Desire

• As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Long
  • Heart

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Desire
  • Public
  • Expansion

• Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Imperialism

• I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Music
  • Fun

• I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Small

• The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Desire

• Although someone's vote may hurt me by supporting the structures in place that hold people of colour, women, and LGBT+ people down, some people just don't realise that these structures exist. The way someone votes doesn't make them a bad person; it just means that, at the time, this was the best decision they thought they could make.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

  

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • Brain
  • Damage
  • TV

• If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Should

• We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Desire
  • Break
  • Lovers