Desire Quotes
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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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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Orson Pratt
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
Daisaku Ikeda
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You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
Tom Stoppard
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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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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
Beau Bridges
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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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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
Laura Dern
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
Ingrid Betancourt
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
Ignatius of Antioch
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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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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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
Ignatius of Antioch
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
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When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.
Madeleine de Souvre
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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
Rabia Basri
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I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
Carol Leifer
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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's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
Ian Hart
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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
Albert Einstein
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
Tamron Hall
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I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
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So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
Delloreese Patricia Early