Desire Quotes
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
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Dr. King, if he were alive today, probably would simply be a minister, a pastor. His initial intent was, indeed, just to be a preacher. He didn't have any egotistical desire or need to be a public figure or celebrity. He got drafted - or, really, dragged into it - initially in Montgomery.
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The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.
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music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.
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Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
