Irresistible Desire Quotes

#1. Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.

Richard Salter Storrs

#2. It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

Annie Dillard

#3. Rachel, you take her," my mother said, clearly uncomfortable. "She might like you." "No. Mom, no!" I protested, but it was my mother we were talking about, and it was either take the baby or have her hit the floor.

Kim Harrison

#4. His words hung hollow between us, the knowledge that I'd given him my virginity, my body, my heart, my everything, only for him to walk away in a few weeks shredded me.

Aria Cole

#5. Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible.

Adam Smith

#6. I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

Albert Einstein

#7. You would realize that all the cookies were formed in the same mold. And what is more, Sophie, you are now seized by the irresistible desire to see this mold. Because clearly, the mold itself must be utter perfection - and in a sense, more beautiful - in comparison with these crude copies.

Jostein Gaarder

#8. In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Daniel Reardon

#9. It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

Miles Davis

#10. Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

Napoleon Hill

#11. I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear ... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

Tom Brady

#12. Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.

Pat Riley

#13. Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly."
Robert Frost

Madelyn Hill

#14. I had an irresistible desire to make a last effort to awaken your memory.

Stefan Zweig

#15. Scarlet sat up, heat rushing to her face as she was struck with an almost irresistible yearning to crawl toward him - not to get off the train's roof, but to be wrapped up against him again. To feel warm and safe and content, just for another moment. She smashed the desire down into her gut. Wolf

Marissa Meyer

#16. In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.

Ryokan

#17. I have said that I cannot explain my desire for her, and it is true. I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible.

Gene Wolfe

#18. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

#19. 1. Someone to love 2. Something to do 3. Something to look forward to

Jama Hare

#20. It was hard to separate the fact from the fiction ...

Jodi Picoult

#21. He could see now that she looked tired; the delicate tissue under her eyes bruised violet with fatigue. He fought an almost irresistible desire to trace the half-circles with his finger.

Meg Rosoff

#22. This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

John Piper

#23. Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.

Marquis De Lafayette

#24. Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

David O. McKay

#25. The vase was a solid, dark green stone carved into plain surfaces; the texture of its smooth curves provoked an irresistible desire to touch it. It seemed startling in that office, incongruous with the sternness of the rest: it was a touch of sensuality.

Ayn Rand

#26. I have to force myself to look away from those irresistible dimples; they unleash the desire between my legs.

Emily Rose Philips