"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

-- Ovid

#Desire Quotes #Coveting Quotes #Strive Quotes

“That woman is the most difficult, the most stubborn redhead I've ever had the displeasure of meeting." He shot off, leaving only a blurry streak in his wake. "And you're falling in love with her," Kylie whispered.”
“Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.”

Source : "Something Deeply Unfeminist About a Miniskirt". The Times, May 27, 2004.
“The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.”
“I never know how to worship until I know how to love.”
“Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.164, Faber & Faber
“The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.”
“It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.”
“Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?”

Source : "A Choice of Gods". Book by Clifford D. Simak. Chapter 7, 1972.

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