Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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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.
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
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But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire.
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Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
