Quotes with desire

Quotes 261 till 280 of 350.

  • Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Karl Kraus The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Karl Lagerfeld 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.
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  • Eileen Caddy The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Henry Giles The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Hill The starting point of all achievement is desire.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Michel Foucault The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Ben Shahn The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Francis Beaumont The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • George Orwell The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Edward Gibbon The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Socrates The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Angela Davis The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Anna Katharine Green There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
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  • George Bernard Shaw There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Crick There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bergen Evans There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led…
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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