Desire Quotes
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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
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There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.
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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
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Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with.
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I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
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To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
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For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes - such as desiring what we desire to desire - will always be like being told, when you desperately want there to be a God, that yes, God exists, as God is simply the good within people.
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You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
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To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain
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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else, clearly this must be the good and the chief good.
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".
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It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.
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That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
