Allison McAtee Quotes

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

Allison McAtee

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• The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • True
  • Human

• I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Interested
  • Wants

• My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Wife
  • Wants
  • Delicious

• Everybody wants to be great at something.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Something
  • Wants

• My guess is that if David Beckham wants Ronaldo's jersey, he's going to get it.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Going
  • Wants
  • Guess

• Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Inspiration
  • Behavior
  • Desires

• Hillary essentially wants to abolish the Second Amendment.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Wants
  • Amendment
  • Essentially

• The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Long
  • Nature

• Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Real

• One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Wants

• God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • God
  • Wants
  • Side

• Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Wishes
  • Desires
  • Persistence

• In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

  

  James Hutton
  • Science
  • Desires
  • Matters

• I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.

  

  Jean-Claude Killy
  • Always
  • Competition
  • Wants

• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peace
  • Desires
  • Achieved

• No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Things
  • Become

• Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

  

  Plato
  • Desires
  • Condition
  • Slight

• To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.

  

  Sophocles
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Desires

• No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • Born
  • Desires

• But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Girl
  • Dust
  • Grasp

• So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Men
  • Together

• I hate to judge everybody across the board.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Hate
  • Boards

• I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

  

  Allison McAtee
  • Desires
  • Wants
  • Grasp