Sentence examples for control of our desires from inspiring English sources

We're thrilled to share with you Aimee Bender's "The Red Ribbon," which originally appeared in Electric Literature no. 3. It's a story about secrets and identity, about how much of ourselves we are willing to expose, about the consequences of taking control of our desires.

Harris reckons we cannot control the deep causes of our desires and intentions.

To be sexually powerful, you had to be in control of your desires.

But our leadership couldn't let go of our desire to control from the centre.

Framing is active at all times and is a function of our desire to control and master events that look complex at first sight.

'The faith that is religious', says Dewey, '[I should describe as] the unification of the self through allegiance to inclusive ideal ends, which imagination presents to us and to which the human will responds as worthy of controlling our desires and choices' (1934, 33).

Steve Jobs bet that our desire for control of our identity would trump the hiccups along the way to that reality, and AT&T is validating it for what it is, good business.

We thought that we'd seen through the efforts of the Communist state to control our minds and the efforts of the corporate state to control our desires.

The only revolutionary thing here is the desire to take back control of our future".

And his metaphor in the "Phaedrus," of a charioteer (reason) desperately trying to control two horses with one of them (our desires) struggling to go its own way, illustrates the difficulties of rational control.

I didn't let my fear take control of my desires and the result was pure bliss.