Desire Quotes
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The living all assemble! What's the cue?--
Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!
Theodore Roethke
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And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.
Norman Vincent Peale
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
William Griffith Wilson
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He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
Thomas Hobbes
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I think I have a very American desire and willingness to divulge everything. I would divulge more if I didn't know it wasn't smart.
Amity Gaige
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Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
W. H. Auden
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So much has changed since the '70s and '80s when it comes to acting and being in the public eye. We'd go out to a restaurant, and there would be five or six people. Now there's a lot more, plus social media, and this desire to bring other people down.
Lily Collins
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
John Calvin
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The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.
Andrew Bonar
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If…if I had his education, Kantaylis thought, surprised at the sudden intensity of the desire. If I could I’d study this business, read up on it, read all there is to be read about it.
Anton Myrer
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I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.
Miranda Richardson
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The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
Lord Byron
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All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.
Lao Tzu
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It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
Frank B. Kellogg
