Desire Quotes
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It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.
Colman Domingo
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Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
Napoleon Hill
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And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.
Jeremy Irons
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It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.
Marie Antoinette
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Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.
Thomas Hobbes
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Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
Cyril Tourneur
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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.
Drew Bledsoe
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The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
Claude Debussy
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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey
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The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
Ashton Eaton
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I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.
Doug Hoffman
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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
Joan Chen
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.
Babatunde Osotimehin
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While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
Jerry Saltz
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Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.
Zig Ziglar
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They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
Napoleon Hill
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
Eddie Charles Jones
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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.
Confucius
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...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.
Oksana Baiul
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall
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It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
James Coburn
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I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
Chris Hughes