Madeleine de Scudery Quotes
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.Madeleine de Scudery
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
Kabir Bedi -
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
Tahj Mowry -
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
Panayiotis Zavos -
Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
Orlando Bloom -
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
Nate Berkus -
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sai Baba -
My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
Dana Goodyear -
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 -
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda -
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
Frances McDormand
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre -
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine -
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
Barry Schwartz -
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Quentin Crisp -
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman -
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna
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This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions - never.
Kate Winslet -
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.
Charli XCX -
Balzac was right…. There is tremendous jealousy about money.
Oliver Stone -
People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.
William Deresiewicz -
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Madeleine de Scudery