Nick Bantock Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
Ingrid Newkirk -
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 -
Desire is the very essence of man.
Baruch Spinoza -
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
Saint Basil -
I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
Im Dong-Hyun -
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
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard -
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie -
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman -
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
Immanuel Kant
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The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window Did not desire that feathery argentines Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds Should foam, be foamy waves, should move like them
Wallace Stevens -
Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.
Elfriede Jelinek -
I joke that I've always had this sort of insatiable 'big sis' complex - which is odd given that I am the baby of the family with no sisters! It's the reason I have such a powerful desire to connect with girls and encourage them. So, it's a natural fit for me to have a job that's like the editorial version of an older sister to a million girls.
Elaine Welteroth -
I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.
Donatella Versace -
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Denis Diderot -
Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
Bill Viola
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire -
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
Kim Basinger -
In such a world-at such a time--'a decent respect for the opinion of mankind'-in the words of our Declaration of Independence-requires that we state plainly the purposes we seek, the principles we hold.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. Now I determine my weight by how my clothes feel.
Judy Reyes -
She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires
Nick Bantock