Quotes with non-desire

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  • George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Baba Kalyani In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • Bill Cosby In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Janet Guthrie It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Lord George Byron It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Shakespeare It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer 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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