Lust Quotes

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
Alfre Woodard

Love, Heart, Together

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Society, Mind, Simple

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus

Christian, Morality, Follow

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Pliny the Elder

Rather, Wealth, Seems

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway

Ambition, Enjoyment, Grows

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
Irving Babbitt

Good, Power, Knowledge

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

Future, Alone, Mind

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow

Love, Music, Politics

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster

Ambition, Whether, Fall

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters

Mom, Greatest, Wanted

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
William Kingdon Clifford

Heart, Him, After

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
John Boyd Orr

Power, Revenge, Defeat

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.
Rob Sheffield

Sad, Pet, Loneliness

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
Ben Jonson

After, Weed, Neither

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster

Wise, Strange, She

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
Frank Chodorov

Power, Giving, State

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
Lance Loud

Freedom, Personal, Less

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Johann Arndt

Life, Far, State

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
Johann Arndt

True, Blessings, Christian

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Mercy Otis Warren

Love, Power, Perhaps

I lust love to play football.
Ray Nitschke

Love, Football, Play

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell

Love, Power, War

People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.
Joe Chung

Strong, Cheated

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
John Lahr

Society, Crazy, Calls

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
Charles MacArthur

Love, Men, Greed

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism,' but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
John Metcalf

Together, Become, Wanted

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