Quotes with non-desire

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  • Adrienne Rich A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • William Hazlitt A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Horace Mann A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Brad Feld A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Allen Tate According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bertrand Russell All human activity is prompted by desire.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Lord Chesterfield All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Aristotle All men by nature desire knowledge.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Samuel Butler All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bayazid Bastami All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Evelyn Waugh Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Man Ray An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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