Sarah Fielding Quotes

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Sarah Fielding

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• Lives
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• Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

  

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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.

  

  Sam Abell
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• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
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• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• 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
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• 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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• Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

  

  Rachel Johnson
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  • Lives
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• I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Learn
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• When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Desire

• Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Down

• Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Imperialism

• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Power
  • Together
  • Desire

• Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Men
  • Heart

• And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Great
  • Men
  • Death

• There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
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  • Art
  • Desire

• The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Desire

• I'm a late developer.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself...

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Silence
  • Lifetime
  • Acknowledge

• I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movies
  • Seems
  • Where

• If doubtful whether to end with 'yours faithfully', or 'yours truly', or 'your most truly', &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach 'yours affectionately'), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Up

• When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.

  

  Armando Iannucci
  • Movie
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• Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Desire
  • Lives
  • Source