Quotes with desire

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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Robert Browning O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Anne Rice Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Aeschylus Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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  • Claude M. Bristol One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • A. B. Yehoshua One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • George Herbert Allen One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Margaret Drabble Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Denis Waitley Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Robin George Collingwood Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Beau Bridges Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Robert Collier Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Roland Barthes Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Iris Murdoch Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Arthur Keith Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Napoleon Hill Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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