Overwhelming Desire Quotes

#1. Ibrahim feels an overwhelming desire for her, for the soft of her body, the warmth of it. This urge silences the other voice in his mind, the one that asks insistently, and seeks, and seeks.

Parnaz Foroutan

#2. It didn't matter that Daniel had already seen her at her absolute, tear-streaked, bedraggled worst. She still had an overwhelming desire to be pretty for him. Which made her resent herself.

Frankie Rose

#3. The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

John R. Allen

#4. But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.

Jimmy Carr

#5. The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.

Richard Norton Smith

#6. You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.

Sefi Atta

#7. I thought she hated you," Devin said with a frown, tilting his head to the side as he studied Jodi. "That's the only way she knows how to express her overwhelming desire for me," he said, moving

R.L. Mathewson

#8. To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

James A. Baldwin

#9. This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#10. Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Jasper Fforde

#11. Tom Pellegrini suppresses an almost overwhelming desire to see this woman dragged into a police wagon and bounced over every pothole between here and headquarters.

David Simon

#12. He tasted like white wine and pine needles. He tasted like two years of waiting. I wanted to breathe for him, I wanted to swallow him whole. I ached with a sudden, pulsing need, an overwhelming desire I'd never felt before.

Viv Daniels

#13. Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Sylvester Stallone

#14. God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.

Carol Kent

#15. How are you feeling?" Charlie asked, adding a small bottle of V-8 juice to the bedside table.
"Like I just sat through an entire Justin Bieber concert."
"Headache and nausea?
"And an overwhelming desire to die.

Tammy Blackwell

#16. Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

Johann Lamont

#17. Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told.

Madison Thorne Grey

#18. Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")

Julian Hawthorne

#20. My bat mitzvah portion is about many things, but I think it is primarily about who we are wholly there for, and how that, more than anything else, defines our identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#21. If a gurl understands your bullshit, stcks through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for, It'z obvious she's a keeper but itz also obvious dont deserve her either

Saeed Jones

#22. This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. Love. It was love and lust and desire and passion. He'd never felt all those things at the same time before, and the combination was overwhelming.

Marie Force

#24. The desire from those abroad to join our ranks is overwhelming. Tens of millions have applied for the limited amount of diversity visas available every year, illustrating the demand and need to maintain this vital path to American citizenship.

Cedric Richmond

#25. I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

Daryl Hall

#26. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.

Rachel Cohn

#27. How did, all of a sudden, my middling desire to spend quality time in another's company become overwhelming?

Rodney Ross

#28. A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.

Lysa TerKeurst

#29. If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Herodotus

#30. A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

Etty Hillesum

#31. I've come to believe that part of lovesickness comes from this conflict between control and desire. In love we have no control. Our hearts and minds are tormented, teased, enticed and delighted by the overwhelming strength of emotions that make us try to forget the real world.

Lisa See

#32. the desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.

Edward T. Welch

#33. Remember today, that I love you.

S.C. Stephens

#34. The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.

Edward Hirsch

#35. Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question!

James Patterson

#36. Never assume anything, expect the unexpected, be ready for everything all the time. And

Gary Paulsen

#37. Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole ...

Hans Frank

#38. Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

David B. Haight

#39. ... how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear.

Kate Atkinson