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.
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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.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Viktor Orban
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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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
Halsey
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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.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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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.
J. C. Chandor
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
D. B. Sweeney
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
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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.
Felix Adler
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
Dana Goodyear
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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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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.
Barry Sanders
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
Wayne Dyer
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
Sachin Tendulkar
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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.
Xun Kuang
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
Elisabeth Shue
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Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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Pop culture is like our subconscious.
Hanna Rosin
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First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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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.
Thomas Hobbes