My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan where he seems only to want to turn tail.

Most people think that shadows follow precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words ideas desires deeds impulses and memories.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

When all is said and done the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires since nature hath set none.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for but I have other desires and passions.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures and things like that.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

To fall in love is easy even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Since every man desires happiness it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance your prayers your sacrifice and he most humbly asks this of you.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Uncontrolled the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.

The three main sources of scepticism are first that not every people desires freedom second that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.