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  • There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. -- Rumi
  • The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. -- Rumi
  • In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use. -- Donald A. Norman
  • I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle-flame. -- Neil Gaiman
  • 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
  • In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love. -- Octavio Paz
  • A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. -- William Hazlitt
  • Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. -- Joseph Butler
  • Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others. -- Joseph Butler
  • I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful. -- Tippi Hedren
  • You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic. -- Emmanuelle Beart
  • Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. -- Robin G. Collingwood
  • Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. -- Samuel Alexander
  • I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. -- Ignatius of Antioch
  • The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. -- Thomas Frank
  • I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil. -- Carole Bouquet
  • The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read. -- James Fenimore Cooper
  • But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? -- Thomas Paine
  • Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity. -- Marielle Heller
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