Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas ! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.
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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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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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.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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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?
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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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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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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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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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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I'm not made to be a mother.
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Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.
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My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'
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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.
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I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas ! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.
