Quotes with desire

Quotes 301 till 320 of 350.

  • George Chapman Too much desire to please divorces.
    Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Juvenal Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Aldous Huxley Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Salman Rushdie Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Bill Viola 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.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • John Irving We are formed by what we desire.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Eric Hoffer We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Thomas Troward We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow We desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.
    Speech in Reichstag, 6 December 1897
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Marcel Proust We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • William Wordsworth We live by hope; and by desire: we see by the glad light; and breathe the sweet air of futurity; and so we live, or else we have no live.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Neville Chamberlain We regard the agreements signed last night as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.
    Speech 30-09-1938
    Neville Chamberlain
    British politician and Prime Minister (1869 - 1940)
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  • Akio Morita We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
    Akio Morita
    Japanese businessman, founder of Sony (1921 - 1999)
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