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I may not have everything I want, but I have everything I need...especially when it comes to snacks.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Success is not a one-time achievement, but a series of continuous efforts towards a goal.
Author:
Samantha Martinez
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The beauty of planning lies in the possibility of creating a future we desire.
Author:
Catherine Stone
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire
Author:
Lily Smith
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Our deepest desires are often disguised as our greatest fears.
Author:
Sophia Collins
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Life is a dance between what you desire and what you fear; finding the balance is where true liberation lies.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Author:
A. Yehoshua
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You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Author:
Eli Whitney
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Author:
Walt Whitman
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My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
Author:
Roger Waters
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
Author:
David Wallace
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
Author:
Janine Turner
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My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Author:
Janine Turner
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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Author:
Tacitus
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I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Author:
Richard Stoddard
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I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
Author:
Andrew Still
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Desire is the very essence of man.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Always desire to learn something useful.
Author:
Sophocles
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Author:
Socrates
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Author:
Patti Smith
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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I have no desire to carry a movie.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
Author:
Samuel Schmid
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Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Author:
Ludwig Rohe
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I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
Author:
Dennis Rodman
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
Author:
Adrienne Rich
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You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Author:
Herbert Read
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Author:
Hugh Prather
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Author:
John Osborne
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Author:
Brian Molko
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I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.
Author:
Rebecca Miller
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Author:
Michelangelo
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I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
Author:
Will McDonough
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My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Author:
Hattie McDaniel
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A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.
Author:
Scott McClellan
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Author:
Horace Mann
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Author:
Horace Mann
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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
Author:
John Mahoney
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My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
Author:
Ida Lupino
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Author:
Titus Livius
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My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
Author:
Donna Leon
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Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.
Author:
Mario Lemieux
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.
Author:
Comte Lautreamont
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I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
Author:
Diane Lane
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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Author:
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.
Author:
Richard Krajicek
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But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.
Author:
Richard Krajicek
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I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
Author:
Mark Knopfler
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Author:
Soren Kierkegaard
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I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.
Author:
William Kidd
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My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
Author:
William Kidd
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It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.
Author:
Guy Johnson
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It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.
Author:
Guy Johnson
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
Author:
Theodor Herzl
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Desire creates its own object.
Author:
Barbara Harrison
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
Author:
William Gurnall
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
Author:
William Godwin
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Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Author:
Ellen Glasgow
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Author:
Brendan Francis
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
Author:
C. Forester
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A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
Author:
Mike Figgis
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The desire to write grows with writing.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
Author:
Epictetus
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Author:
George Eliot
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I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
Author:
Danny Elfman
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
Author:
Marguerite Duras
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We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
Author:
Robert Dole
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
Author:
Otto Dix
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I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Author:
Marlene Dietrich
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
Author:
Jacques Derrida
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Author:
Democritus
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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.
Author:
Jacques Delors
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I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
Author:
Daniel Craig
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Author:
Richard Courant
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Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Author:
Confucius
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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Author:
Confucius
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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
Author:
John Cleese
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The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.
Author:
Julian Clary
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
Author:
Joan Chen
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Author:
Coco Chanel
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Author:
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Author:
Willa Cather
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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
Author:
John Cassavetes
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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
Author:
Rosanne Cash
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Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
Author:
Martin Buren
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Author:
Louis Brandeis
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There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
Author:
Robert Bourassa
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And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
Author:
Anne Boleyn
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Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Author:
Sissela Bok
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I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
Author:
Heston Blumenthal
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
Author:
John Bernal
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
Author:
Francis Beaumont
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Author:
Roland Barthes
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And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Author:
Russell Banks
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
Author:
Balthus
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The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Author:
Emily Balch
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Author:
Neil Armstrong
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
Author:
James Allen
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
Author:
James Allen
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Author:
Samuel Alexander
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It's so much better to desire than to have.
Author:
Anouk Aimee
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Author:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.
Author:
Andre Agassi
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Author:
Sam Abell
