Quotes with desire

  • Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
  • Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
  • Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
  • The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
  • The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
  • The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
  • I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
  • There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
  • What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
  • I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
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  • Joseph Addison Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Napoleon Hill Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mme de Stael The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Lin Yü-tang All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Mario Andretti Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
    Mario Andretti
    Italian-born American former racing driver (1940 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Machiavelli I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • George Eliot I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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