Quotes with desire

Quotes 101 till 120 of 350.

  • Anne Hutchinson For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bayard Taylor From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Brooke Shields From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Arthur Keith Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Adam Smith Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • George Robert Gissing Have the courage of your desire.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Alan Cohen I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • William Shakespeare I do desire we may be better strangers.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Milan Kundera I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.
    Farewell Waltz (1976)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Charles Dickens I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Burt Shavitz I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Willie Shoemaker I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • William Butler Yeats I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Andrew Taylor Still I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Joseph Conrad I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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