Desire Quotes
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Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.
William Gifford
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There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
Euripides
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The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.
Andy Mineo
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We infinitely desire peace, and the surest way of obtaining it is to show that we are not afraid of war.
Edmund Morris
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I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.
Nicholas Sparks
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All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.
Nicholas of Cusa
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So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Thomas Hobbes
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Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas
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I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.
Willie Herron
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However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.
Thomas Sowell
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Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error. They think they'll find another way. I'm not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.
Adam Gollner
