#desi

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. ↗

— Coventry Patmore

#fulfilling #god #incredible #more #prompt

A single man, he said he loved women but preferred engines. ↗

— Colum McCann

#love

Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series. ↗

— James Loeb

#consulted #desirability #distinguished #had #i

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick. ↗

— Carole Lombard

#code #designed #first #fit #forget

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#creativity #fashion-designer #idea #image #life

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#any #common #desirable #goods #human

This is my logo for Mouth ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clever-logo #clover-logos #design #lips #mouth-logo

Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#crisis #desired #every #extra #offers

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#aging #beauty #body #desire #dream