Alice Borchardt Quotes
Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors.
Alice Borchardt
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We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
Irvine Welsh
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
Karl Jaspers
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
Ian Thorpe
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British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
Kate Williams
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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
D. H. Lawrence
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We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the surface and achieve all that you desire
Earl Nightingale
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You have to focus hard on recording songs that you believe in.
Trisha Yearwood
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I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.
Robin Gibb
Bee Gees
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There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up.
Dalai Lama
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One always finds time for what one likes.
Annie French Hector
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Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors.
Alice Borchardt