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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• People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • People
  • Why
  • Power

• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Desire
  • Myself
  • Find

• 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
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Desire

• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Creation

• I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Power
  • Death
  • Earth

• When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Desire

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Desire
  • Public
  • Expansion

• I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Man
  • Relationship

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Imperialism

• 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
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• 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
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Desire
  • Goal
  • Missed

• 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
  • Time
  • Power
  • Happy

• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• Leave off the 'financially'.Let the financial be the result of honest, sincere desire to be and live so that others may know the way also. Good gives the increase. ( Many Mansions Chapter 20 - A Philosophy of Vocational Choice )

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Good
  • Live
  • May

• À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul pas à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait de me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à mon lit comme un petit enfant.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Lit

• I definitely don't think of this as a play in any kind of e-commerce space. There was a gap in our ability to get certain types of information.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Space
  • Kind
  • E-Commerce

• I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Persons
  • Behavior
  • Tolerate

• 'MyMusic' is a great showcase of what we can do as creators on a modest budget when we're given the opportunity to put together a television-sized project, and hopefully, whether it's 'MyMusic' making that transition to television or having something sprout off from it, it's an exciting time to be a creator.

  

  Benny Fine
  • Time
  • Great
  • Together

• I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Looks

• Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors.

  

  Alice Borchardt
  • Desire
  • Weapon
  • Arrayed