Conflicting Desires Quotes

#1. Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.

Jack D. Zipes

#2. I feel an ache in my throat, but I manage to smile. Two conflicting desires go through me at the same time, each as sharp as a razorblade: I want to see you grow up and Don't ever change.

Lauren Oliver

#3. I'd spent my life searching for something I couldn't name.
And as I drowned in the torrential flow of conflicting desires, caught in the relentless roar of water, earth, blood, and war, I reached out - wildly, desperately - and found it with him.

Emma Raveling

#4. To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own.

Stephen Richards

#5. There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. From the sacred center of the world streams forth an irrepressible desire to overcome the silence between things. Art, the ever flowing fountain, reveals the secret of life through word and gesture, color and sound. The

Hermann Hesse

#7. Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

Neil LaBute

#8. True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

Frederic Dan Huntington

#9. J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure!

Paul James

#10. Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

Henry Rollins

#11. Thinking," Vrag interrupted. "Is not your prerogative, dog. That is my calling. You go where I tell you to go, you take what I tell you to take, and you kill what I tell you to kill - do I make myself plain?

S.G. Night

#12. Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

Charles Lindbergh

#13. Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Caroline Knapp

#14. I hated him, loved him, wanted him, and yet I wished him away. So many conflicting emotions of wants and needs. So much fear. Not because of him, but because of myself - of how deep my feelings and desires were running, and how much I would fall if I happened to lose my grip.

J.C. Reed

#15. I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.

Richard Dawkins