Desire Quotes
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I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.
Franklin Foer
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Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world.
Sophocles
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
Andy Rooney
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A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks
Scott McClellan
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A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
Confucius
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For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
William S. Burroughs
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I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.
Santiago Durango Big Black
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Plato
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Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
Robert Baden-Powell
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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
Thomas Hobbes
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
Watchman Nee
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I've never been one for widdly woos and widdly wah wahs, so I haven't had the desire to learn the more technical aspects of playing. Just write better riffs, I suppose.
Paul Mullen The Automatic
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Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Gautama Buddha
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You always have a burning desire to do well, ... It wouldn't matter if it was the first year, second year, third year.
Joe Gibbs
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The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.
Margaret Geller
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I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war.
C. S. Lewis
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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
Adam Cooper
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It's definitely an issue if the actor has passed away without stating any intention or desire about how his or her likeness should be dealt with. Then it falls to their estate. That's a problem that will start solving itself. Now the technology exists, and actors are aware of this and can make their wishes known.
John Knoll
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You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.
Napoleon Hill
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James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
Mark Wahlberg
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare