Quotes with non-desire

Quotes 281 till 300 of 436.

  • Caleb Cushing Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Johnson Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • Beau Willimon Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bhagavad Gita The abstinent run away from what they desire
    But carry their desires with them.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bruno Dumont The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Aristotle The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Aldous Huxley The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • May Sarton The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Bobby Sands The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Albert Camus The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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