Desires Quotes
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Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.
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May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is the Father, Son and Spirit.
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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
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I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.
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They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
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Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.
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WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.
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The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.
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If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.
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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
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Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am - you alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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This is a meeting to discuss and compile the issues and desires that will arise under county ownership of Conaway Ranch.
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Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.
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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.
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.
