Desire Quotes
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All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Lin Yutang
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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 your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.
Abraham Lincoln
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I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.
Jason Fried
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I don't have any desire to be better known.
Lindsay Duncan
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I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.
Dionne Warwick
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz
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We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.
Mary Beard
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If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.
Marco Bizzarri
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The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.
Maimonides
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
Fernando Pessoa
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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
Brian Tracy
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If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.
Napoleon Hill
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The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
Leslie Charteris
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I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Fred Astaire
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Timing is irrelevant when it comes to desire.
Marjorie Liu
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I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.
Leon Bridges
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I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.
Amy Bloom
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That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
Cheri Huber
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At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.
Maurice Allais
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My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
Nan Goldin
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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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A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.
Maimonides