William Lashner Quotes

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

William Lashner

William Lashner

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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

Ingrid Newkirk
- People
- America
- Free
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Wallace Stevens
- Desire
- Reason
- Nothing
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
- May
- Desire
- Eyes
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

Fran Lebowitz
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Ramakrishna
- Energy
- Faith
- Desire
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Walt Whitman
- Me
- Desire
- Speak