Eloisa James Quotes

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

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• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Problems

• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • You
  • Question
  • Mystery

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Education
  • College

• Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Question
  • Old
  • Youth

• Desire is the essence of a man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Essence

• Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Question
  • Government
  • Best

• There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Society
  • Question

• The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • May
  • Nature

• Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Water

• Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Why
  • True
  • Question

• 'Why are you so concerned about society?' That is always the question. And my answer is simple: 'Because you are an artist, you have to associate yourself with freedom of expression.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Why
  • Society
  • Freedom

• The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Desire

• By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

  

  David Ricardo
  • Country
  • May
  • Desire

• My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

  

  Martin Bouygues
  • May
  • Question

• The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

  

  Ellen Swallow Richards
  • College
  • Question
  • Health

• The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

  

  Billy Tauzin
  • Life
  • God
  • Question

• If there's one thing this team doesn't lack, it's competitiveness and a desire to win. No matter if we come off a win or come off a loss, it seems like we don't really care. We're always motivated to win.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Team
  • Desire
  • Motivated

• The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Causes

• My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • American
  • Revolution

• Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • World
  • American
  • Security

• We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Christmas

• The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Alone

• In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Desire
  • Question
  • Hands