Desire Quotes
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Walter Gropius
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack Obama
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The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.
Stevie Wonder
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For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Charles Hazlewood
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A capable and confident man with a strong desire to accomplish something great, can do anything in life.
Asaram
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
Bat for Lashes
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I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
Carl Karcher
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Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more.
Wallace Stevens
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher
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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
Ursula K. Le Guin
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson
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Let me be clear: Donald Trump may be a rat, but I have no desire to copulate with him.
Ted Cruz
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
A. B. Yehoshua
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I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
Aristotle
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Orson Pratt
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What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
Kim Weston
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Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.
Elaine Scarry
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History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
Oliver Tambo
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
Tahar Ben Jelloun