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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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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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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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.
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I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
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Go at life every day with passion and enthusiasm... and when challenges arrive, simply do not give up.
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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.
