Quotes with non-desire

Quotes 201 till 220 of 436.

  • Burgess Owens It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Mohsin Hamid It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Ben Stiller Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Albert Camus Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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  • Will Durant Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Roland Barthes Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Theodore Parker Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Let reason govern desire.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Jose Marti Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
    Jose Marti
    Cuban politician, journalist and poet (1853 - 1895)
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  • Seneca Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Socrates Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bill Flores Like tens of millions of Americans, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Michelangelo Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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