Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
Ulysses S. Grant -
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.
Saint Augustine -
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
V. S. Naipaul -
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes -
Desire is the very essence of man.
Baruch Spinoza -
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Oscar Wilde
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow -
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
Karen Allen -
I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
Rachel Dratch -
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
J. B. Priestley -
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
Vince McMahon
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor -
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon -
Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
Carine Roitfeld -
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch Spinoza -
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
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Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
Bobbie Ann Mason -
My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
Usain Bolt -
Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
Gail Carson Levine -
If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
Maeve Binchy -
Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.
Kelly Clarkson -
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens